The Beach Boys’ resident genius Brian Wilson will be publishing a memoir in October. I Am Brian Wilson, co-written with Ben Greenman, covers the songwriter’s life and career and will be released shortly after Wilson’s masterwork, the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. In an excerpt from the book on Pitchfork, Wilson writes, “when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don’t like discussing them. Sometimes I don’t even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of that pain has changed.”
The New York Observer, whose publisher is Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has revealed its huge endorsement for president. It’s a guy from New York not named Bernie Sanders.
The shortlist for the International Dublin Literary award, a lucrative prize nominated by libraries across the world, includes Jenny Offill, Marlon James, Javier Cercas, and Mary Costello, among others.
The New Yorker Today, an iPhone app featuring the magazine’s online content and some 8,000 cartoons—presented in a gallery that encourages Tinder-like swiping—was released yesterday and is free for one month. Online editor Nicholas Thompson says of the app, “Our instinct is that for a brand like ours that has a lot of loyal readers that are reading all the time, it’s very important to give them an extremely quick way to read everything.” They’ve also made it a quick way to subscribe—it takes just two taps to sign up for a digital subscription from the app.
Tonight at apexart in Manhattan, Bookforum editor Albert Mobilio presents the latest installment of the “Double Take” series, in which authors, editors, and artists converse on a range of topics. This evening will feature discussions including Donald Breckenridge and Johannah Rodgers on Saratoga Park in Brooklyn; Stephen Tunney and Peter Wortsman on insomnia; and Colin Dickey and Lauren Walsh on photography and perception.
