Dennis Quaid thanks Crowe for humiliating him. (via Amy) The scoop behind Churchill’s Nobel Lit Prize win (via Moorish). And Lizzie has convinced me to…
Dale Peck isn’t just a bitch, but he’s an hubric mofo who compares his Moody blues to both Edmund Wilson and Virginia Woolf. (And, of…
Wired: “So Withers decided to start the Wilgoren Watch, dedicated to deconstructing The New York Times’ coverage of Howard Dean’s campaign. Within weeks, the site…
1. I had a terrifying dream in which I lost all of my teeth. It should be stated for the record that this was not…
Janet Maslin is a good critic, but any doubts that she’s been ghettoized by the Times as the “pop lit gal” should be removed. In…
The U.S. State Department has banned the courier font from all diplomatic correspondence. “That’ll show ‘em,” said a State Department official, who hoped that Times…
Naomi Wolf: “But the effect [of porn] is not making men into raving beasts. On the contrary: The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening…
“If you reject absolutely any single sensation without stopping to distinguish between opinion about things awaiting confirmation and that which is already confirmed to be…
November really boils down to one choice: Anybody But Bush. But since we’re in the primary stage, why not have a little bit of fun?…
New York Times: “Tricia Enright, the campaign’s communications director, said Dr. Dean was forming ‘a new creative team’ to overhaul its television advertisements. She said…
There’s something which needs to be stated for the record. I am TMFTML. Neal Pollack is too. (And here you all are wondering why Pollack’s…
Some distressing news from Publisher’s Lunch. The ironically named Committee for Truth in Psychiatry has sued Houghton Mifflin and writer Daniel Smith for $20 million…
Tom Wolfe’s new novel, about “contemporary college life as seen through the eyes of students,” is due out this fall. Wolfe’s been kicking around frat…
Iowablog: “I think everything I learned at Iowa is wrong.” These are good, honest words to hear from a young whipper-snapper who wants to write….
The Locket (1944): Normally, I frown upon the flashback structure. Unless you have a solid justification for it (like Memento), it comes across as gimmicky….
To call Dean’s second place finish in New Hampshire “close” is to approach a cliff face, jump off, and attempt to land on the ground…
The Observer leaks the shortlist for Chip McGrath’s replacement. SARAH CRICHTON: Former publisher of Little, Brown, fired, with charges of commercialism and fights with Warner…
Rittenhouse: “If you link to ‘Wonkette’ through your blogroll you cannot and will not enjoy, for what that might be worth, a link from The…
While walking along Valencia St. a few nights ago, I came across a crumpled piece of paper on the sidewalk. I didn’t have any reading…
Nudity in Science Fiction Books (via Quiddity) Only in John Updike’s universe could a person be prim about dental procedure: ?Let?s have lunch,? he begged….
Noir attrition has kicked in. And it’s not just me. I had to assure a fellow film buff that Sydney Greenstreet did indeed appear in…
Not one motherfucker in the States says “fucken.” What was the point in spelling it this way? If we are to look at this from…
Michiko on Joe Ezterhas: “As for the rest of this ridiculously padded, absurdly self-indulgent book, the reader can only cry: T.M.I.! Too Much Information! And:…
The nominees have been announced. 1. Spellbound was ignored in the Best Documentary category. 2. Granted, he was fun. But Johnny Depp for Pirates of…
I’m stunned by the sudden influx of email I’ve had concerning my call to action re: Keller and the New York Times Book Review (thanks…