As much as he loved visiting Hogwarts, something always bugged author Lev Grossman when he worked his way through J.K. Rowling’s epic.”I found it really odd that Potter never seemed to have read C.S. Lewis growing up. No one in his world seems to have ever read any fiction at…
We’re two-and-a-half weeks into November and it’s really starting to smell like culture ’round the Magic City. The Miami Book Fair International’s in full swing at Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, wrapping up its weeklong residency this weekend with the annual street fair. Art Basel is just around the corner, creeping…
What would happen if Judy Blume rewrote Dante’s Inferno to star a sexually repressed teenager who thinks she’s in hell for overdosing on pot? There’s only one author alive qualified to tackle that question; luckily Chuck Palahniuk, maverick author of Fight Club and Choke, decided to give it a shot…
Fashion Breakdown: Dress from All Saints, cropped mini jacket-cape from Diane Von Furstenberg, shoes are Elisanero, bag from Por La Victorie, headpiece stolen from my best friend’s closet, and silver necklace from Top Shop…
In Celebrity C-list news…Tori Spelling’s husband, Dean McDermott, celebrated his 45th birthday by tweeting a picture of his wife’s breasts. About eight hours ago, McDermott went Twitter crazy, tweeting a picture of a cute chef’s apron that his kids made him for his birthday, a self-portrait in which he dawns…
Nicole Krauss will break your heart. You’ll be reading one of her novels and suddenly the pages will be damp. Confused, you’ll check the page number — 12 — and swear to yourself that you couldn’t possibly be weeping before even learning the narrator’s name. But you are. Don’t worry. It’s…
Brook Dorsch is one of the most likable and well-respected guys in the Miami art scene. This Saturday night, along with the openings of solo shows Martin Murphy: Modern Trance and Mette Tommerup: Full Salute, he is hosting Dorsch Gallery’s 20th anniversary party with a long list of musical acts…
On a recent episode of Chelsea Lately, Handler discussed the literary success of Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea. When one of her guests brought up the fact that Handler had topped the New York Times’ Best-Seller list, the show’s host quickly added, “Yeah, so did Snooki.” She’s right,…
Phillip Ross Munro is perhaps best known for his dynamic underwater photography portraying swimmers clad in flowing fabric evoking images of classical paintings. His technically masterful large-format photographs shot off the South Florida coast are sumptuous and operatic in nature. But in a new series marking a departure, Munro turns…
Miami Book Fair 2011: Chuck Palahniuk, Nicole Krauss, street festival Nov. 18-20
Melancholia: Lars von Trier imagines the end days
Amigo: John Sayles brings the Philippine-American War into the 21st Century
Immortals: Mickey Rourke returns in one of the most extravagantly violent movies
Luisa Fernanda at the Ziff Ballet Opera House through November 26
The Red Thread at the PlayGround Theatre through December 18
Red at GableStage through December 4
Last year, dozens of storm troopers surrounded an abandoned building on Miami Beach, guns blazing. They were joined by a giant Albert Einstein, holding a sign that read “Love Is the Answer.” The mystery lasted for about 30 seconds until word got around that street artist Mr. Brainwash was behind…
Adam Mansbach’s children’s-book-not-for-children Go the Fuck to Sleep reads like The Very Hungry Caterpillar according to Lenny Bruce. A taste: “The owls fly forth from the treetops. Through the air, they soar and they sweep. A hot crimson rage fills my heart, love. For real, shut the fuck up and…
Nicole Krauss will break your heart. You’ll be reading one of her novels and suddenly the pages will be damp. Confused, you’ll check the page number — 12 — and swear to yourself that you couldn’t possibly be weeping before even learning the narrator’s name. But you are. Don’t worry…
Andy Borowitz’s new book, The 50 Funniest American Writers (Library of America), is a collection of hilarious pieces ranging from O. Henty’s “The Ransom of Red Chief” to Davis Sedaris’ “Buddy, Can You Spare a Tire.” Borowitz will be discussing the book at the Miami Book Fair this Saturday. Since…
It would be easier to begrudge Téa Obreht’s extraordinary success at such a young age if her writing weren’t so damn good. Her debut, The Tiger’s Wife — published last year when she was just 24 — is the hauntingly beautiful tale of Natalia, a young Yugoslavian doctor, struggling to…
Radiohead is one of the most beloved bands of the past 20 years despite the fan schism created by the release of The King of Limbs. For purists, the album moved in the wrong direction: It continued the sonic experimentation of In Rainbows and Kid A instead of returning to…
