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My first (and probably only?) reading review

Ben — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:20:51 +0000

Maybe I’m just naive, but it’s actually nice to know such things exist, media folks attending book readings. And, of course, I couldn’t help but love the following from the Daily Californian:

Five authors from PM Press‘ ”Switchblade Series” of socially-conscious potboilers presented on Friday night, including Benjamin Whitmer, Summer Brenner, Gary Phillips, Michael Harris, and Kenneth Wishnia. Particularly notable where the excerpts from Whitmer’s gritty Appalachian whodunit “Pike,” which sounded something like a prose-ified version of a Nick Cave Murder Ballad.

So what else could I do but post this?

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Book review — The Death of Bunny Munro

Ben — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:34:25 +0000

My review of Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro over at INDenverTimes.

There are few antiheros as loathsome as Bunny Munro, the protagonist of Nick Cave’s second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. A monstrously pathetic (and unaccountable successful) cosmetic salesman, Bunny Munro seems to have spent his life careening from date rape to date rape, fueled by Scotch, cigarettes, and cocaine. The novel opens with Bunny’s wife’s suicide – due to Bunny’s more unsavory foibles, it’s worth mentioning – and even this doesn’t calm him down. If anything, it lends his debauches a certain hellish urgency as he packs up his nine-year-old son, Bunny Jr., and takes off on a sales trip in his bright yellow Punto.

The rest here.

Guns, Books, Etc.

Ben — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:56:09 +0000

Guns, Books, Etc.

Bastardilla. NEED IMAGE – 3452041750_1c96a3d8be.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bastardilla

“That time was tragic, it hurts to think about it, and the toxins produced by the great assassinations are still draining into American life. It’s possible that it takes an obscene, raw, mighty parodic work like the Underground USA Trilogy to bring that time into literature.”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23184

Nick Cave on his monstrous, funny Bunny Munro.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/09/nickcave_bunnymunro.html

Tactical bacon: details.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/c399/

“Bombing a country at the same time you are offering it aid is as morally repulsive as beating up a kid in an alley and stopping to ask for a kiss.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/mailer/print.html

The reason why, though I love my 1911, I also have a Glock.

http://www.theprepared.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90&Item

Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue.

http://www.blurt-online.com/video/view/239/

Bastardilla.
“That time was tragic, it hurts to think about it, and the toxins produced by the great assassinations are still draining into American life. It’s possible that it takes an obscene, raw, mighty parodic work like the Underground USA Trilogy to bring that time into literature.”
Nick Cave on his monstrous, funny Bunny Munro.
Tactical bacon: details.
“Bombing a country at the same time you are offering it aid is as morally repulsive as beating up a kid in an alley and stopping to ask for a kiss.”
The reason why, though I love my 1911, I also have a Glock.
Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue.

We call upon the author to explain

Ben — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:18:48 +0000

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The Death of Bunny Monro

Ben — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:06:35 +0000

Nick Cave reads from his forthcoming novel, The Death of Bunny Monro, thanks to the Guardian. I’ve got the thing pre-ordered, obviously.

A picture of Nick Cave, because no one should live their life without seeing the mustache.

Update: You can watch Nick Cave read more of the novel here. And listen to the complete first chapter here. And read excerpts for yourself here.