Notes of a Defeatist

The Chicago Reader speaks with On the Street Doing Life author Anne Keegan about her new book, her column with the Chicago Tribune, and how she’s not “a Gen Xer boring everybody with what I think.”

“I never wrote about myself,” she says. “They [her Tribune editors] may have decided I didn’t write enough silly stuff about my kids’ diapers. Or about my twins. Or my psychiatrist. Or how I found a coyote in my yard. I may have led a very interesting life, but there are people whose stories are far more fascinating than mine. When I went to Thailand and wrote about the Cambodian refugees did I write, ‘I stood there and watched them crawl across the border’? Oh, please! I wrote about the nurses who picked them up. You don’t say, ‘Oh, I stood there.’ You write about Lisa the nurse from Skokie holding a little boy laden with malaria.

Link from Bookslut.com

The Black Snake Moan soundtrack hits stores tomorrow, featuring a very nice selection of great blues from R.L. Burnside, Son House, Bobby Rush, The Black Keys, to yes, Sam “I guess I was wrong about that other Snakes movie” Jackson. Just like director Craig Brewer steeped Hustle and Flow with hip-hop flavor, Black Snake Moan looks saturated in the blues.

Ira Glass talks about bringing This American Life to Showtime. It premieres sometime next month.

On a TAL related note: Jessie Thorn, host of the very awesome Sound of Young America has a fantastic Their conversation gives a great behind the scenes look at what goes into producing a show of TAL’s caliber, as well as what we can look forward with the television show.

Don’t hate the player: Forbes names the San Antonio Spurs, led by owner Peter Holt the model francise. Senator Kohl? You listening? How many more years is it going to take for you to get it?

The Ski Mask Way—HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS. HARD DEALS. HARD TIME.

From G-Unit publishing a novel co-written by…50 Cent.

Let’s hope they have a choose your own adventure series in the works too.

tags technorati : Blues, Black Snake Moan, 50 cent, books, Peter Holt, This American Life, Julie Snyder, Jessie Thorn, Anne Keegan