Category Archives: The Thursday Agitation

March 5, 2009, Author: Tobias, Leave a comment

The Thursday Agitation: Shane Jones

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Shane Jones‘s novel Light Boxes is a strange and haunting work, alternating surreal descriptions of a winter-bound society with starkly tangible descriptions of that society’s daily life, and encompassing a storyline at once epic and deeply intimate. Its tone, bringing together metafictional elements with folk-tale lyricism, at times recalls Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman and the recent … Continue reading →

February 26, 2009, Author: Tobias, 1 Comment

the thursday agitation: christopher r. weingarten

Categories: Music, The Thursday Agitation

I’ve known Christopher Weingarten for a few years now: first as the copiously intense drummer for Parts & Labor, and more recently as my editor at Paper Thin Walls. Lately I’ve been following his 1000 Times Yes project, in which he plans to review 1,000 records by the end of 2009 within the confines of … Continue reading →

February 26, 2009, Author: Tobias, Leave a comment

the thursday agitation: an introduction

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Today brings the first installment of The Thursday Agitation, a weekly series of short interviews on The Scowl. First up will be Christopher Weingarten, my onetime editor at Paper Thin Walls, to discuss (among other things) his 1000 Times Yes project. Said interview should be up within a few hours. For the record, I’m using … Continue reading →

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