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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/...ston_moore.php
Hard to figure out who's missing from the Brooklyn Book Festival's superlative lineup—Pynchon? DeLillo? The event, which takes place over the improbable course of one day—Sunday, September 14—around Brooklyn's Borough Hall, is if nothing else a humiliatingly accurate diagnosis of the neighborhood's literary tastes: Thurston Moore and Ian MacKaye discussing the "parallel worlds of independent music and book publishing"; local geographer Jonathan Lethem reading fiction with George Pelecanos; Richard Price, rounding out the ex-Wire-writer group, teaming with A.M. Holmes to talk about going the F. Scott Fitzgerald route and writing for the screen. Joan Didion is there, talking politics no less, representing the New York Review of Books on a panel about the next administration (is she for Obama, hopefully?). Local fiction writers Rivka Galchen and Ed Park (who's already threatening to tell some sort of first-name–based joke, given that he's on a panel with both Chuck—ne Charles—Klosterman and Charles Bock) prove someone over there is still reading books in 2008. Top-shelf dudes Jonathan Franzen and Russell Banks provide gravitas; Jimmy Breslin and John Manbeck hold it down for old New York. The list of confirmed authors is long, and ridiculous, and can be found after the jump. Will this be the day you finally meet your wife? The full roster: Henry Alford Jose Eduardo Agualusa Dorothy Allison Russell Banks Moustafa Bayoumi Mo Beasley Paul Beatty Ross Benjamin Charles Bock Philip Boehm Mirko Bonne Jimmy Breslin Breyten Breytenbach Geoff Canada Susan Choi Kate Christensen Melissa Clark Gabriel Cohen Ta-Nehisi Coates Celine Curiol Frank Delaney Stacey D'Erasmo Joan Didion Robert Draper Nathan Englander Rachel Fereshleiser Nick Flynn Jonathan Franzen David Frum Andrew Sean Greer Ben Greenman Philippe Grimbert Paul Guest Pete Hamill Theodore Hamm Kathryn Harrison Matthea Harvey A.M. Homes Pico Iyer Steven Jenkins Oonya Kempadoo Porochista Khakpour Josh Kilmer-Purcell Lily Koppel Jonathan Lethem Tao Lin Sandra Tsing Loh Leonard Lopate Phillip Lopate John R. MacArthur Ian MacKaye John Manbeck Alice Mattison Patrick McGrath Terry McMillan Joe Meno Thurston Moore Arthur Nersesian Jay Neugeboren Fae Myenne Ng Elizabeth Nunez D. Nurkse Joseph O’Neill Ed Park Jose Luis Peixoto George Pelecanos Arthur Phillips Darryl Pinckney Katha Pollitt Kevin Powell Richard Price David Rakoff Elizabeth Reddin Nathaniel Rich Simon Rich Steven Rinella Cristy C. Road Carl Hancock Rux Linda Sanchez Loretta Sanchez Esmeralda Santiago Said Sayrafiezadeh Ken Siegelman Amy Shearn Owen Sheers Robert Silvers Larry Smith Patricia Smith Amanda Stern Manil Suri Paco I. Taibo II Paul Tough Nikki Turner Linn Ullmann Matt Weiland Jacob Weisberg Sean Wilsey Dirk Wittenborn Naomi Wolf Peter Wortsman Kevin Young Gary Younge |
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Brooklyn Book Festival Schedule Released.
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09.05.2008, 04:48 AM
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MacKaye, Moore Debate Indie Issues In Brooklyn
 Fugazi September 15, 2008 , 12:00 PM ETCortney Harding, N.Y. Fugazi frontman/Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore took questions from a packed audience at the Brooklyn Book Fair yesterday (Sept. 14), and while the panel was intended as a discussion of the parallel worlds of independent music and book publishing, most of the conversation centered around rock'n'roll. In response to the moderator's use of the word "Google" as a verb, MacKaye began the panel with a rant about the danger of language being a branded commodity. He then discussed his band's now-legendary $5 cover policy, saying that there are always ways for the music industry to be more efficient. At the same time, he encouraged the audience to support artists by buying their music and seeing their shows. Moore then fielded a question about the declining influence of physical goods, stating that records at this point seem like more of a fetish object. MacKaye joined the discussion with an anecdote about Dischord's venture into the CD market and his discovery that 70 minutes of music on one disc, no matter the band, was too much. Finally, the pair addressed the hot-button issue of indie bands associating with brands. MacKaye claimed the notion that working with brands was the only way to expose music is a conceit created by advertisers, and that all bands have a choice as to whether or not to sell their songs. However, Moore said that once a band releases a recording of a song, the song is a commodity for sale, and that bands should be careful who they sell to, but not write off the idea altogether. In related news, Dischord has just made its entire catalog available as 320 kbps, DRM-free MP3 files via Dischord.com. |
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