Kramer does know his commercial waterways

Wow did they use AI to make Seth MacFarlane look like Bill Clinton in 'Ted' S2?

With Popo or the dog?

How can you be this clever on a Friday night?

I was going to watch Hamnet. you gave me a better ideas.

markin my wayne till I mull

mullin my wayne til I mark

I tried DHALGREN years ago and it was fine but from what I’ve heard about HOGG it’s not worth it

Now that’s some actual obscenity (I’ve never read it)

Happy Wednesday. Time to post Hogg.

You can watch the new Jarmusch on Mubi now. Good movie. I suspect it started life as a Rolex ad.

Like CITY SLICKERS or MINIONS, STALKER proves you can’t go wrong with three dumb guys on a goofy adventure.

Watched SPINAL TAP last night and MARTY SUPREME today, which gave me an epic overview of the life and career of Fran Drescher.

I saw MARTY SUPREME today, which is pretty good for a movie that starts out the same way as LOOK WHO'S TALKING.

I’ve now been told the book has not enough plot and too much plot. They’re both wrong: it just has a very silly plot.

I kind of forgot that I submitted my supermarket novel to a bunch of small presses last year, so these fresh rejections were a fun surprise.

As long she admits that the state is Rhode Island. No more waffling on this issue!

They should let disgraced ex-governor Ella McCay deliver the rebuttal

Will Smith just slapped Donald Trump at the state of the union

My vibe lately has been “stock broker who works for Homer Simpson”

I feel like Silverblatt would have done a two-parter with Howard on this one.

A full third of this Malcolm Cowley biography is about people other than Malcolm Cowley, which I think is appropriate for a biography of Malcolm Cowley.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that Albert Brooks wrote my epitaph.

This Malcolm Cowley bio makes me wish I was reading an Edmund Wilson bio.

You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating and then contracting, websites and newsletters dominating and ...

Silverblatt’s laconic style, even in that heyday of voluminous literary interview opportunities, seemed to belong to another century. He required, and rewarded, patience. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Oddly enough, this movie popped up in my dream too but it was called THE LAST BUS for some reason. I wonder if Jung wrote about this.

An Oulipo Mini-Anthology | KCRW Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier      When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this…

Pour yourself a decaf coffee (or something stronger) and listen to Michael Silverblatt chat about the legacy of Oulipo some of its key members — Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier.

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Day two of my between-jobs vacation. Today I learned that Hart Crane’s father invented Life Savers candy. What will tomorrow bring?

John Barth, Part I | KCRW Coming Soon!!! (Houghton Mifflin) A full-scale celebration of the career of John Barth, one of America's greatest comic writers. His experiments with form, his crazy circumlocutions and…

We’re posting our favorite Michael Silverblatt interviews all week! Listen to this two-part conversation with postmodern master and Dalkey Archive Press author John Barth — www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

A lot big deaths in the past couple of days, but I’m sad this ended up being only a local story. Literary scholars will be using the Bookworm archives for decades to come.