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.
The Denver Post is reporting that at least one funeral parlor is trying to shake up the world of mortuary service advertising. The results are at least tasteful, I suppose.
I've always wanted to do a spec campaign for a funeral home. I even brought a few ideas to my portfolio class at the University of Texas. Unfortunately, nobody agreed with me that the ability to re-animate grandma's corpse to wave at the gathering mourners was a believable unique selling proposition.
