Wooooo
If you want something to read and you don't mind if it's really stupid, you should read my magazine - Wooooo. It's an interview-based deal I publish biannually from my filthy little rat-hole in New York City. When I say biannually I mean whenever time permits, however next year we'll be adhering to a strict schedule of four issues per year.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Reading David Sedaris is like sharing those rare moments with friends; when you laugh so hard at someone's self-deprecating recollection of their misfortune that your eyes bleed. It's also like you've been reborn in a world where you're wearing an external catheter designed for sports fans because you like to accessorise.
True Norwegian Black Metal
We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent eight years getting unrivaled access to the most insular and hostile music scene in the world: True Norwegian Black Metal. Think Burzum. Emperor.
My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead
Jeffrey Eugenides knows about love. Dave Eggers, the 'Bono of lit', knew that Jeffrey knew about love, and asked him to compile a book of love stories. In 25 parts, My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead charts that many-splendoured thing from its first flush to its final denouement, from ‘voyeuristic longing to disenchanted entanglement’.
Bigfoot: I Not Dead
Okay, enough mucking around with frivolous books. Sometimes you’ve got to knuckle down and improve your life with some serious, brow-straining, “real literature.” It is in this spirit that FourThousand recommends the latest volume of Bigfoot’s Official Biography, Bigfoot: I Not Dead.
The Story of Forgetting
Ah, books; the perfect Mothers' Day present. In the eyes of the recipient, they make you look intelligent, thoughtful, and they're easy to wrap. But don't just trundle down to Kmart to pick up the new Danielle Steel, because your mum is an intelligent being and, unlike your average Kmart customer, can read.
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?
Have you heard of Thomas Kohnstamm? That’s ok, most people haven’t. But get this, he gave up a successful Wall Street career and stable relationship for his dream job: travelling to Brazil to write a Lonely Planet guide. His dream, however, quickly turned to nightmare. After spending half his meagre wage on a plane ticket, he had only six weeks to write about 59 towns spread over some 1000 miles of coastline.
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