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Archive: June, 2010
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| Skyhorse, 336 pp., $24.95, July 13 |
British author Robert Sellers explores the hair-raising escapades of the aforementioned film legends, all of whom were much more than troublemakers — they were really bad, and they liked it that way. If much of the inflammatory information didn't come from quoted sources, you'd be inclined to think the account of this naughty foursome's high jinks came straight from the tabloids. But it all seems to be true, testifying to the bold, fearless, lusty personalities of these guys. They recklessly pursued women, drank excessively and tried every drug available.To win a copy of Hollywood Hellraisers, answer the following trivia question:
According to Jack Nicholson, who are the only two people you lie to?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Hollywood Hellraisers" in the subject line. Visit Critical Mass tomorrow for giveaways of Obsessive Consumption, The Promise and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 4:19 p.m.]: Thanks, CM reader Satya, for being the first to send over the famous Jack Nicholson quote, "There's only two people in your life you should lie to — the police and your girlfriend."
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Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
I promised you Icepack, and Icepack you shall receive: At the end of A.D. Amorosi's gossip column this week, he shouted out local author-turned-Brooklynite Jim Knipfel, whose story collection These Children Who Come At You With Knives, and Other Fairy Tales came out in early June.
Here's a snippet from the book jacket:
A masterful storyteller whose memoirs and novels have earned him widespread acclaim, this is Knipfel's first foray into the short story, and he delivers in spades: This wickedly dark satire on the notion of happily ever after turns the traditional fairy tale on its head. Among the array of lonely losers wallowing in discontent, the enterprising reader of this volume may meet a talking chicken who learns the world has little patience for intelligence, a foul-mouthed gnome set on world domination, and a magical snowman wrestling with the horror of being alive.To win a copy of These Children Who Come At You With Knives, answer the following trivia question:
Since he was a teenager, Knipfel has suffered from what condition?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Jim Knipfel" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this afternoon for a Hollywood Hellraisers giveaway. [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:23 a.m.]: Big ups to CritMass reader Sara, who was the first to answer that Knipfel suffers from Retinitis pigmentosa.Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
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| Twelve, 424 pp., $26.99, June 2 |
Hitch 22 flashes back often to the writer's early days of torment. Hitchens paints himself as a weakling in knickers, lousy at sports, who for most of his life struggles with his mother's suicide. Grief is later replaced with heavy drinking, debating and Hemingway-esque globe-trotting with close friends who include writers Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. The high-energy memoir, while plenty self-indulgent, follows the writer as a young boy into manhood. It's peppered with a heady mix of boarding-school high jinks, quests for social justice and rigorous examinations of God, politics and America, all the while vividly recounting the "lacerating, howling" moments in his life where the "private and the political had intersected."To win a copy of Hitch-22, answer the following trivia question:
In 2008, Christopher Hitchens was in the running for a National Magazine Award. To whom did he lose?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Hitch-22" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this afternoon: We're giving away copies of These Children Who Come At You With Knives and Hollywood Hellraisers. [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:21 a.m.]: Congratulations to Cal, who guessed correctly that Matt Taibbi beat out Hitchens for the '08 prize.Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
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| Knopf, 352 pp., $25.95, June 22 |
An Escher-inspired computer game designer by day and aspiring novelist with visions of uxoricide by night, David weaves several versions of his marriage (and his wife's untimely demise) together so seamlessly that it's impossible to figure out where one reality begins and another ends. Did he kill Alice, his obese, self-obsessed, manic-depressive wife? Or didn't he? We're not really sure, and that's OK. The deceptive simplicity that works so well with Escher's iconic images also serves Ross' story well. The beauty of David's narrative is that what's real and what's imagined is never entirely clear. It's this uncertainty, the way Ross loops beginnings into ends and back again, that is so effective. But the pressure of two ungainly side plots deforms the skillful, looping conceit of the novel. In these interlocking, overly clever and comparatively clumsy storylines involving the officers investigating David's role (or lack thereof) in Alice's death, Ross rips the boundary between reality and perception and loses sight of which ants are crawling where.To win a copy of Mr. Peanut, answer the following trivia question:
In what year was the Planters anthropomorphic-nut mascot created?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Mr. Peanut" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this weekend for more chances to win! [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:18 a.m.]: Congratulations to CM reader Kristen, who correctly answered that Mr. Peanut made his debut in 1916.Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
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| Ecco, 304 pp., $26.99, 6/8 |
Bourdain is as funny in Medium Raw as he was in Kitchen Confidential (see the chapter on his "Black Propaganda"-style campaign to turn his 2-year-old daughter off McDonald's); if you have any sense of humor at all — well, don't read with your mouth full.
Three highly publicized books into his stint as celebrity author, Bourdain has his recipe down pat, and his simmering blend of audacity, take-it-or-leave-it opinion and often-nuanced insight amounts to a pretty delicious meal. But the main ingredient is the chef himself, hovered over the pot in total control, inviting, provoking us to taste.To win a copy of Medium Raw, answer the following trivia question:
In Kitchen Confidential, what affectionate nickname did Bourdain have for the female cook who now works as his manager?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Medium Raw" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this weekend for more chances to win! [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:14 a.m.]: Congratulations to Ed, who correctly identified Bourdain's nickname for his now-manager: Grill Bitch.Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
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| Doubleday, 304 pp., $25.95, June 1 |
Aimee Bender may test the limits of quirk, but she's a treasure nonetheless: a modern fabulist drawn equally to magic and the realities of contemporary life. The heroine of her latest novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, can taste people's emotions in their food. Do they yearn for love? Are they always late? Rose can tell, a talent she discovers just before her birthday, when a slice of cake reveals that her beautiful, creative mom feels small, distant and hollow — all of which is too much for Rose. Bender's cute premise works because, as any recovering picky eater knows, the pure stuff (apples and carrots) and the processed stuff (chips and candy) are for many hypersensitive kids the only palatable foods. At the same time, we know that many a woman has swallowed her sadness to cook something up for her kids. The notion of food being tainted by grown-up pain is of course fantastical, but for the most part, Bender gets the details right, making her fable easy to believe.To win a copy of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, answer the following trivia question:
What age is Rose turning when she begins tasting emotion?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Lemon Cake" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this weekend for more chances to win! [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:10 a.m.]: Congrats to CritMass reader Ben, who correctly answered that the protagonist is turning 9 years old when she acquires her new talent. |
Sat.-Sun., June 19-20, TONY Boutique, 47 N. 3rd Street, 215-592-8669, tonyonthird.com
Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.
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| Scribner, 256 pp., $23, July 6 |
This lighthearted novel by Philadelphia author Richard Morais is simply a delectable treat. We're introduced to Hassan Haji, born in Mumbai, whose first sensation at birth is smell. When he observes that his family's chicken dish tastes dry, he sets himself on an irrefutable course with destiny to become a great chef. Morais fills almost every page of The Hundred-Foot Journey with foodery, from savory trips to Harrod's and French markets to kitchen scenes featuring descriptions of preparations for ptarmigan and Charolais. There is also plenty of vivid imagery in the text — a character's face resembles "an onion bahji"; the sun looks like dripping mango sorbet.To win a copy of The Hundred-Foot Journey, answer the following trivia question:
Anthony Bourdain calls The Hundred-Foot Journey "the lushest, most high-test food porn" since what?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "The Hundred-Foot Journey" in the subject line. Keep an eye on Critical Mass this weekend for more chances to win! [UPDATE, Mon., June 21, 10:08 a.m.]: Congratulations to CritMass reader Shandra, who was the first (of many!) to answer correctly that Anthony Bourdain calls this book the best food porn since Zola. |
As the longest-tenured correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, actress/comedian Samantha Bee's the alpha female of a pretty dude-heavy cast. Since 2003, she's regularly fake-reported, sometimes alongside husband/fellow correspondent Jason Jones, on topics from politics to religion to pornography to pop culture. But Bee's no slave to the topical. Her first book, I Know I Am, But What Are You? (Gallery), is a collection of autobiographical essays detailing her fairly ridiculous Canadian childhood, the result of being raised on one side of the family by a regimented stepmom and, on the other by a free-spirted wiccan mother.
In "Man-witch," Bee recounts her early infatuation with Jesus and her horror when her mother took her to a Wiccan ceremony: "What if I accidentally said Satan's name three times in my head? Does just thinking about Satan really invite him into your heart, or do you have to personally invite him the way you have to do with vampires?" In "May December Never Come," after an older couple mistakes her and her mother for lesbians, Bee writes: "[A]n old man had just spent three seconds imagining my mom and me doing the scissors together, and when he revealed that to us, I then spent at least three of the longest seconds of my life imagining my mom and me doing the scissors together. If you've ever had an aquarium, you know that fish can die from a disease known as 'ick,' and that's precisely how I was starting to feel." In "Gurr-Bulls," after Jones discovers an embarrassing photo from Bee's not-so-distant past, "He was looking around the room like a caged animal. I thought he might try to claw his way out through the screen door like a raccoon that gets down your chimney and ends up trapped in your house by accident. I've always suspected that one day the jig would be up. Here we have Jason, so handsome and photogenic, and his wife, by all photographic accounts homely, and, in this case, of indecipherable gender." The dozen essays reveal that the mother of two is as funny writing about herself as she is about oil spills or political impropriety. I caught up with her on the phone from her New York office in advance of her appearance at the Free Library (June 19, 2 p.m., free) and ended up talking about Patrick Stewart, Cougartown and how she and Jason totally need recommendations for their upcoming weekend in Philly. City Paper: So on a show where everyone's a senior correspondent, and that's part of the joke, you are actually the senior senior correspondent. Samantha Bee: I'm the most senior, of all the seniors. I'm like the AARP of correspondents. Although I'm not physically the oldest. I thought that I was but I'm not. Aasif [Mandvi] is actually older than me. So in your face, Aasif! CP: Does that come with any special perks? A tiara? A scepter? Do you get to sit next to Jon at staff meetings? SB: I am actually holding a scepter in one hand and having interns attend to my undercarriage as we speak. CP: Do you get more freedom with your work than, say, Wyatt [Cenac] does? SB: Nope, not at all. Does not come with any of that. I don't want it. I'm happy with the amount of freedom that I have. CP: Reading your book, it's hard not to imagine hearing these essays in your voice, with your facial expressions and your comedic quirks. SB: Well, you know, there's an audiobook, which is just the weirdest thing. I recorded the audiobook and I thought, "Who in the world would want to hear this with my voice?" I would rather I had Patrick Stewart read my book. I thought that would have been a good fit. But he's expensive. Y'know, I didn't even check. I'm sure he's way more than I can afford to pay. CP: So do you write with that intention, that these be things that could be read aloud? SB: I do. That was kind of my plan with the book. I did try to make it as casual and colloquial as possible. I did try to hear my own voice — but like a smoother sexier version of my own voice, but still, my inner voice. I tried to hear it while I wrote it. I didn't read it out loud until I recorded the audio book. So that was kind of weird, but I actually think that I achieved my goal, because when I read the audio book, none of it seemed too writey. CP: This is essentially a collection of memoirs ... SB: Y'know, I know it's technically a memoir, but I feel like I don't deserve the moniker, to be honest with you. I'm thinking more in terms of vignettes, essays from my life. Henry Kissinger writes memoirs. People who do things that are scary or valuable — they write their memoirs. I just wrote a bunch of essays, don't you think? I mean, like the book only goes up to my mid-20s. I don't really address anything I'm doing now of any value. There is no value to my book. CP: Well, it's part one. Part two will be housed in your historical library. SB: Hah, it'll be a trilogy. CP: Was there a point where you had to make a decision, basically, I'm writing a book and it's going to be about me. Because a lot of the writing you do for TV is, on some level or another, issue oriented. SB: I only wanted to write a book because I'm a narcissist, pure and simple. No, it was just the only book I wanted to write. Because I don't ... I can't even articulate why. It wasn't like I wanted to make myself look great — I obviously look like an idiot. You don't come away from the book with like a great impression of my past or anything like that. But I wanted to make it candid. And I wanted it to be funny. Hopefully, I think I achieved the candid part and we'll have to wait and see how people feel about the other part. CP: Has writing a book been on the to-do list for a while? SB: Well, yeah, it has. It's a little surreal actually. When I was growing up I always thought, "Y'know, I'm gonna write a book." And I thought, "I'm gonna live in New York." And then I forgot about both of those dreams, and really never did any work toward either of those goals. I just sort of knew it somehow. I can't really explain this. I remember definitely knowing I would do both of those things, and then never ever doing anything to make those goals happen. And it just sort of occurred. I don't like to say that I'm not in control of my own life, but some ways I wasn't, and I ended up here. And when I moved here, I went, "Heeeey, I knew I was going to live here one day." And then I wrote a book and I went, "I kneeeeew I was going to write a book." CP: Well, It's cool you were able to accomplish them both. SB: Despite my own efforts. I feel very lucky. CP: It fits with the life of leisure you say you're after in the "Sailor Moon" essay. SB: I know! I work very hard for a person who wants to lead a life of leisure. One day I'll get back there. One day I'm just going to putter around in the garden. I swear to God. CP: Are there more books in you? SB: I don't know. I definitely don't have a book in me right now — I'm about to give birth again to another child. When I wrote the book, it really hit the sweet spot. I had just given birth to my second child. It hit a sweet spot creatively and time-wise. So I think I'll wait and see how this book is received. I certainly loved the process — much more than I expected to. I didn't find it tortuous at all. I found it very enjoyable. I would love to have the opportunity to do it again. Whether anyone would give me the opportunity remains to be seen. I wouldn't do one just for my own personal pleasure, and photocopy it for my friends. CP: No vanity publishing for Samantha Bee. SB: No! CP: You've got that great essay ("Man-witch") about growing up wanting to make out with Jesus. SB: We all did. Are you a lapsed Catholic by any chance? CP: I'm a very lapsed Catholic. SB: I think that was the function of all those sexy pictures of him, wasn't it, to make all the young girls want to make out with Jesus so that we would be better Catholics? And give us a terrible secret to feel guilty about? Catholic forever. CP: He's definitely portrayed as a beefcake in a lot of those church pictures. SB: Seriously, those eyes. They just look right through you. CP: So now that you've got kids of your own, how are you planning to handle the religion question? SB: Well, that's an interesting question ... because we're choosing to pursue the path of negligence. We're just not really dealing with it at all. I'm not religious anymore. I have my own "spirituality," I suppose, but it's not really something that I could articulate for a 4-year-old. And Jason is not religious at all. So we're just not doing anything. We considered having our children baptized so that they could go to a parochial school, and get a really good education for cheaper than a private school. But that just seems dishonest. So we're not going to go down that road at all. We get questions like, "Am I going to die one day? Then what happens?" and we're just dealing with it very irresponsibly by saying things like, "I don't know" and "We're all gonna die one day," which is terrible. We're doing a terrible job, but our daughter seems to accept it right now. CP: How will you and Jason deal if your kids aren't funny? If they grow up with this, like, different religion or if they grow up and love Larry the Cable Guy? Will you have some sort of intervention like your Wiccan mother had with you? SB: I think there's no question that they're not going to be funny. They'll probably be actually very naturally funny, just because. But they'll hate it, they'll hate comedy or something, because that will be the thing that drives us the most crazy. They'll go into money management. They'll want to become accountants and not do anything creative. We have such creative hopes and expectations for them. We just want them to live and do what they love in life. And we just know they're going to pick something so square and it's just going to totally kill us. But at least they'll be able to afford to take care of us in the manner to which we have grown accustomed when we get old. So there's a plus side to it. CP: Do you have a favorite essay of the ones in the book? SB: I do have a favorite, actually. It's the one about trying to impress my sexy [college] roommate. It's called "Gurr-Bulls" because he thought that gerbils were called gurr-bulls. He was not a smart cookie, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And I spent so long trying to impress him with my [other] roommate. Remembering all of that was just so fun for me. If he read the story, there's no way that he would make the connection between the person that I am now and the person I was then. It seems like he would be a fan of the show, but honestly I have no idea where he is now. I don't even remember his last name. I bet that he watches the show and doesn't know that he lived with me. I hope he reads the book. I don't even know that he would... no, he would recognize himself from the book, of course, but I think it would really weird him out to read it, like, "Who is this person, how did she know?" It's going to be surreal for him if he reads the book. I hope he does. He's probably doing something amazing, I'm sure he's very successful, because everything he touched turned to gold, despite himself. Everyone loved him. He was just one of those people with a golden horseshoe right up his ass. CP: The Daily Show's become a fairly formidable comedy juggernaut. It might even be starting to rival Saturday Night Live in terms of longevity and cultural significance. SB: Nice. CP: Would you agree with that? SB: I don't know, maybe. I was talking about that with Jason the other day, like what shows are history making. We were having an argument about whether or not Friends was a blip on the history of television or whether it was a monolithic show like Seinfeld. And he was saying it was a blip and I was saying no, it was very culturally significant. Love it or hate it, it was on forever, the people who were on it still get tons of work from it. Everybody knows them as those characters. And everybody got their hair cut just like Jennifer Aniston. That's not a blip. CP: And how can you talk down the show that's responsible for Cougartown? SB: The show that's responsible for the continued success of Cougartown. I don't know that any show in the history of television is anything more than a blip. Because television changes all the time. But I don't know, [The Daily Show]'s such a different show than SNL. I've loved SNL over the years, I always watch it. I can't not watch it. Because I want to be amused. ... I've always loved it. It seemed so illicit when you were a kid and your parents let you stay up to watch it, it was like a real treat. Now I think parents just let their kids watch The Daily Show, like "We're going to learn about the oil spill. Watch this." CP: The big difference is that you guys are doing it every day, or four days a week anyway. SB: I do feel there's a huge sense of pride and achievement in doing the show every day in such a quality way. And I loved The Daily Show before I came to work here, so I already had a great admiration for the show. It's surreal to be working in a place that I loved so much, and I continue to love it. And it continues to impress me in a fresh way. I think it's a great show, I'm so proud to work here. CP: Are there ever any get-togethers of the current and former correspondents? Maybe a club? SB: Ha, no, there's no clubhouse. But we do, we stay in touch a little bit. Stephen [Colbert]'s kind of off doing his own thing, but there's kinship there. I'm so happy when people go on to great success and people run into each other. Sometime we see the Corddrys when we're in L.A. and it's really nice. Actually it's so funny, Ed [Helms] is really just a lovely, lovely person, and someone here at work got caught in one of those scams, where his mailbox sent [fraudulent] e-mail that said something like, "Help, I am in distress. I am stuck here and I need money." And Ed was so adorable, he was like, "What do you need, man? Do you need me to help you?" He's so helpful and lovely. And obviously very funny. CP: How is your family reacting to their characterizations in your book? SB: They seem to really like it, they seem to be embracing it wholeheartedly, though they did not read the book before it came out. In fact, I'm so merciless, I've actually made them buy it. Isn't that awful? I have free copies, too! I have all these free copies. But it's actually kind of hard to send a book across the border, because the border guards think its pornography, so they tear it all apart. And it's good for me if people go to the book store and buy the book, of course. So my mother and father just bought copies of the book, and they're just reading it now. My step mother read it, and she really liked it. My mother, I read all the parts that pertain to my mother to her, I just wanted to get her blessing. CP: I was reading the scissoring story earlier ... SB: She doesn't shy away from these things, she's very quirky but she's also very true to herself. It is what it is. I love her. I love her. She's my mother. She's a freak. But I love her. CP: It definitely comes through. SB: And I don't think that she would ever deny that she's a bit of a freak. CP: What should we expect from the Free Library appearance? SB: I'm going to read. I like public readings. I'm starting to get into that energy. So I'm going to read and then I guess if people have questions ... they may not. I probably would field a few questions. And then I would just like to meet people and if people have something they want signed or whatever, that's fine too. But I like to meet people at these events. It's very nice. When people come to see your reading, it's kind of like a love-in. People who hate you don't come to your readings. So it's very nice to be bathed in that warmth. I'm gong to roll around on everybody. I'm going to crowd surf. Pregnant. And then somebody's going to deliver the baby. It's going to be spectacular. CP: Is Jason doing the appearances with you? SB: He's not going to any of the other cities but he is coming to Philly because neither of us know Philly very well. We've certainly been here for work a lot, but when you're working, you don't get to really explore. So we're bringing the children and we're going to spend the weekend in Philly, learning about Philly and doing fun Philly things. CP: Do you need recommendations? SB: I need a lot of recommendations. I don't know the first thing about how to have fun in Philadelphia. But I assume there is a lot of fun to be had. Samantha Bee will read from and discuss her book on Sat., June 19, 2 p.m., free, Central Library, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org. |
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