What could be more scandalous than watching Isabella Rossellini portraying bugs having sex? Turns out sea creatures are even more fascinating.
Check out this Talk of the Town piece in The New Yorker about Rossellini’s latest series of short films. And if Rossellini talking about “Why Vagina” appeals to you, stay tuned for her book, Green Porno which goes on sale in September.
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The results of our latest web pollshow that a friend’s recommendation is the biggest factor when people are buying new books to read, but a good book review is also a strong endorsement. What will happen if the book review sections completely disappear? Which websites and bloggers do you trust most for your reading recommendations?
Do we need one more reason to love Mark Twain?
“He’s Hot. He’s Relevant. And He’s Dead” ……and ninety-nine years after his death, he still justifies coverage in Vanity Fair
At the SXSW conference held last week in Austin, Texas, our recently signed authors and creators of thisiswhyyourefat.com put their own spin on Mims’s hip-hop hit, “This Is Why I’m Hot.” It’s just as catchy, but whether it will stave off your cravings for a good ol’ fashioned meat cake is another question.
The L.A. Times posted a list of the top 25 must follows on Twitter yesterday. It seems like these days you don’t have to be a stalker to find out what your favorite celebrity is up to, i.e. Demi Moore steaming Ashton’s suit while wearing a bikini or when Diddy wakes up from his afternoon nap. We thought we’d share a list of a couple of our Twitter must follows:
A friend of mine once called Choire Sicha “the Joan Didion of Gawker.” I actually don’t think that’s too much of a stretch. Like Didion, (and Candice Bushnell, I suppose,) Choire expresses his relationship to the city in human terms:
“If you’re fascinated by something you can get close to it—that’s always been true about New York,” he said. “But I also feel like the $1.99 breakfast sort of went away, and the room for rent in the East Village went away, too. The cost of entry became prohibitive with the last little boomlet we had, in a kind of extreme way.” He went on: “I had a million jobs when I moved here, and what I see happening among my younger friends, and among people I’m interviewing who are kind enough to give me their time, is there’s nowhere to go.” [Observer]
The week Choire first came in to brainstorm we talked about all of the business books about the economic crisis that had been sold. (I think by that point there were at least ten in the pipeline.) It occurred to both of us that, while the Times and other mainstream media is covering the social impact of the recession, there is still something dark and intense – a profound disorientation deeply felt by people in their 20s and 30s– that isn’t being documented.
We’re kicking around a few titles and would love your ideas.
The Last Party
Recess
F**k Tomorrow
The Morning After
Choire’s inbox has been flooded with emails from people wanting to share their story. You can reach him at choire@choiresicha.com And we’re serious about the $25.
We’re excited to see Walter Mosley give us a shout-out in The Daily Beast! Who Is Mark Twain? made his reading list this week.
Last week I had the pleasure of attending an intimate screening of Isabella Rossellini’s second Green Porno series on sea creatures. Having worked on the book version of these short films, I knew pretty much what I was in for, but I still couldn’t help from laughing with the crowd at the impossibly absurd image of Isabella wearing a towering crown of limpets, stating matter-of-factly: “Then I die because we all have to die.” Or at the amused look of shock on Bob’s face as he watched Isabella reappear on the screen as a whale with a large dangling phallus.
Needless to say, we’re very excited about the book and the second film series, which premieres April 1st on the Sundance Channel. Since the first series was such an overnight internet sensation, you might find Green Porno not only on the web but also at your local bus station. Keep your eye out for a pair of love-making shrimp on a bus near you!
