July 26, 2012

Today in culture: Purity Ring gets a New York Times nod, Random House goes all Harry Crane on our asses and launches a TV department, and the sanctity of the gangster film is questioned.

-Warner Brother’s history of violence.

-Meanwhile, David Mitchell contemplates gangster films through the ages.

-Purity Ring gets NYT love…and a supremely awkward pic.

-Tales from the Big House: A gallery of prison fiction.

-At last! A written history of assholism.

-Lev Grossman hates books sometimes.

-The Watch gets slammed…but we’re still going to see it for Richard Ayoade.

-Stefan Zweig’s imperfect marriage.

-The Bowery Poetry Club has closed.

-Random House TV!

-What is evil?

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