More journalistic endeavors later. For now, the NYT book coverage has me very concerned. Eurotrash is the NYT takedown queen, but I knows bad grammar…
At long last, I have figured this gambit out. The Life, only occasionally referred to here in Reluctant-Land, has become one of those things where…
The Hollywood Reporter (of all places) is reporting that John Updike has won the PEN/Faulkner. [UPDATE: Here’s the Reuters article. Damn, I was rooting for…
The Times chronicles the success story of Andrew Sean Greer, now covered in every newspaper from here to Madrid. Read Max Tivoli before you get…
Rake points to this press release for “Peck’s Last Negative Review Ever.” There’s a phone number there for some guy named Peter McFarlane, if anyone’s…
Sykes, a 34-year-old contributing editor at Vogue and the more dramatic sister of a nineties ?It?-girl twin set??Lucy and I were Paris and Nicky without…
You’ve sold more than 40 million books. Number 12′s about to come out. What do you do to keep your readers hooked? You throw in…
The Impac Dublin prize has been whittled down to a shortlist of ten. The final nominations are: The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster Any…
When he met her he met her and he liked her as much as she liked him yes, he heard things better, meaning better than…
Peter Ustinov has passed on. He was one of the few actors who could write. He made a grand Poirot, and he was so incredible…
The Associated Press: “Acting on a Baton Rouge case, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that police do not need an arrest or…
A hard April 1 deadline stares back at me on the play, which is doubly interesting given that a character’s gender switched over the weekend…
The Hag hits the NYTBR again. That’s two tangos with Chip before the handover. It’s a good review. However, I suspect that the copy desk…
A Day in the Goddam Life (with apologies to Lenin and all other despicable leftists who object to modifiers like “goddam”), a new feature that…
It has now been eight days since we’ve heard anything from the Book Babes, with the last column featuring Margo alone (with an almost Stalinist…
The event is free and open to the public. It happens every year at the San Francisco Main Library. The Northern California Book Awards. Timed…
Novel: Old School Short Story Collection: How to Breathe Underwater Poetry: Notes from the Divided Country Non-Fiction: River of Shadows Children’s Literature: The Day the…
I’d be damn remiss if I didn’t point out that Terry has a Balanchine excerpt up. (Thanks, Laila, for reminding me.)
The Passion of the Christ? Screw that. The real theatrical gem is The Life of Brian, coming again to a theater near you.
Shocking allegations from Howell Raines will soon appear in the Atlantic — part of a planned memoir called I Was Master of the House, But…
Rake points to this Birkets column and the potential conflict of interest. Birkets, as we all know, was the last man pummeled by Dale Peck….
Cathleen Schine’s new novel is (no surprise) about a woman leaving her husband for a woman. But that’s not all. Schine will also be appearing…
When in doubt, rely upon Dan Rather to defy common sense. Whether it’s the 1968 Democratic Convention or Gunga Dan, the very likely possibility that…
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