Historian and one-time Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin has passed on. Boorstin was best known for his American trilogy and his fascinating books on…
Tonight, a really good friend of mine, a guy I have known since my college days, confessed to me that he was a father. Now…
Being out of touch with literature is one thing. Letting Norman Mailer get away with that New Journalism remark was another. But when the Book…
Moorish Girl has the rundown on the StorySouth shortlist. Laila not only has links to all the stories, but she e-mailed all the authors and…
Local 6 News: “An 83-year-old man was found lying dead in his yard next to his wife after he fell, became stranded and ordered his…
Ron is an evil man. Either that or a Dalkey PR flak. If you’re interested in good lit, you can purchase 100 books for $500….
Mark pointed me to this James Wood essay on Knut Hamsun. Despite an obvious effort to play down Hamsun’s allegiance to the Nazis, Wood suggests…
Not so many years ago a teacher of the art of writing began the advertisement of his services with the announcement that millions of people…
J.K. Rowling joins the billionaires club. Unfortunately, since writing the Harry Potter series has largely involved the act of one, there has been nobody for…
So what happened to the Blair Witch guys? Apparently, they’re still trying to make a second film. So let’s see: you make millions of dollars…
The English Pen has launched The Bigger Read, an effort to trump the dumbed down Big Read contest held by the BBC. The BBC plans…
Not only has Maud mistaken me for a Faulkner expert in her dream world, but she also turned me into a schizophrenic blogger. There are…
Perhaps consulting the will of Dr. Evil, Susanna Clarke has netted a millionaire’s deal for Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an 800-page novel dealing with…
This morning, while I was lying in bed, at long last forming an intricate theory about James Doohan’s purpose in “Spock’s Brain,” I came across…
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What most people often overlook about hospitals are its staff members: fit, extremely attractive, sometimes even genuinely sympathetic. Certainly the job demands require that one…
BookExpo 2003 Smackdown: Al Franken/Bill O’Reilly BookExpo 2004 Smackdown: Terry Teachout/Jessa “This isn’t your blog, Terry” Crispin? Aren’t there better things to argue about during…
Well, now that it’s out in the open, and Jessa seems to want to turn this into a contentious war (which it isn’t and it…
Milan Kundera’s in demand in Shanghai, enough to make him the best-selling foreign author in the city. Hybrid publishers are reported to be preparing Mao’s…
It’s been linked several places, but this excellent thread is a must-read for any aspiring writer. Any neophyte may want to spend their time reading…
Like a good geek, I upgraded my browser from Firebird to Firefox. (I’m presuming Mozilla renamed it because their barebones browser has become more devious….
An entire page has been put up to celebrate Spot (the presidential dog) passing away at 15. But there still isn’t a single page up…
The Kos has the scoop on something very close to hitting the mainstream media. Texas Gov. Perry’s wife left Perry. Why? Perry was found in…
“After the doctors and scientific experts testified in Congress that cigarettes cause or compound not only cancer but a number of other diseases and are…
Perhaps an inadvertent confession from Laura Miller? “The only thing more powerful than a worldwide conspiracy, it seems, is our desire to believe in one.”…
It’s been a little more than a month since Olivia Goldsmith passed on, and comments and send-offs still roll in, responses to my visceral reaction…
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Derek has posted some marvelous photos of City Hall marriages. It’s bad enough that the Republicans seem shocked or outraged by the idea of other…
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