I’m pretty goddam appalled to be an American right now. See these yahoos for yourself.
Taking up Stephany’s challenge: In this condition: stirred by the twain into a soupçon of solicitude; by pinching pennies and damning dollars; by sending purty…
Tom and I have concluded that the saddest bachelor meal is this: An open, leftover can of Spaghetti-Os, unheated and eaten out of the can…
The Guardian: “Actor John C Reilly has reportedly quit Lars Von Trier’s Manderlay in protest over the killing of a donkey.” (via Liz Penn)
In one of the silliest articles I’ve ever seen at the Guardian, Natasha Walter claims that sex and porn are difficult to write about. But…
So here’s the deal. Lawrence Lessig writes a book. He issues a Creative Commons license and puts his book online. A few people get the…
British libraries are failing, but there’s a plan in the works. Congratulations, Maud. Now you can go home again. Nadine Gordimer has been honored by…
Courtney Love: “She grabs a suitcase and drags it doggedly to the center of the room. She turns to me and barks, ‘Go through my…
SUGAR LAND, Tex. — This is the home of Britton Stein — oh, not this sentence, but Sugar Land itself. Stein describes George W. Bush…
I don’t know what sort of power struggle is going over at the Hag’s, but it really must be seen to be believed. First off,…
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: You better work your stuff. Deadline’s quick and coming. THE PLAYWRIGHT: I’ve got it! THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: We’re in this…
Apparently, everybody’s been hopping about for the Bill Clinton memoir. 1.5 million copies will be printed in June. The release is timed to avoid competing…
Like Mark, I can’t pass a plug, particularly one that involves a bad pun. If you’re in New York City tonight, go hear Maud read.
From Publisher’s Lunch: Though he stepped carefully around specifics, Tannenhaus confirmed that the process of changing the review has already begun and will build to…
What’s the greatest problem of our age? The stripping of civil liberties? No. The troubling situation in Iraq? No again. The unilateral atmosphere? No, no,…
From Scibbling Woman (via The Little Professor), and at the risk of revealing how illiterate I am, bold the titles you’ve read. Nope, I’ve never…
More than one million women (or 500,000 from the more conservative media outlets) marched on Washington yesterday. But apparently it wasn’t enough to dominate the…
I mean, George wrote the thing in an hour and all. But that hasn’t stopped “Yellow Submarine” from being turned into a book.
Apparently, in Rochester, NY, the late John Gardner still has groupies. It’s been twenty-two years since Gardner died in a motorcycle accident, but that hasn’t…
Either The Magic 7 has spent years in development or someone really knew how to plan for a 2004 release in the early 1990s. Or…
Carrie A.A. Frye’s over at Maud’s this week, “primed in her tangerine muumuu.” This makes a good deal of sense to me, largely because I’ve…
Edward Champion, the proprietor of this blog, was a remote and occupied figure. Edward, a chronic expression of being caught up in some peripheral project…
I have seen the future and it is George. I’ve had my doubts about the Virtual Book Tour for some time (it seemed more of…
In a screwup worthy of Dortmunder himself, a few days ago, I posted some erroneous news about Donald E. Westlake reading a poem over a…
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