A. M. Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life
No it really won't.
Chuck Klosterman: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Ultimately not as satisfying as any of those three things.
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
The only issue of McSweeney's anybody other than Dave Eggers has read cover to cover.
Chuck Klosterman: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Kind of like Madonna's "Hung Up"—you really want to hate it, but then it comes on and you find yourself making little dancey movements with your neck.
George Saunders: In Persuasion Nation
Guess what? Ad people suck.
Philip Roth: Everyman
Guess what? Ad people die.
Introducing a semi-regular feature to act as filler when I can't think of anything else to post: Outtakes, the Internet's finest collection of general advertising awfulness.
First up is the greatest outtake in the history of advertising (besides the footage of Michael Jackson's hair igniting). Witness Orson Welles at his drunkest, desperately trying to get through his lines in a spot for Paul Masson champagne. I haven't cringed this much since "The Wonder Years" went off the air.
Clip via Vice.
