Your new novel, “Bergdorf Blondes,” have created some disgraceful and unintentionally hilarious Q&A sessions which demonstrate that you are a Tina Brown in the making….
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There’s a guy from Liverpool in our apartment at the moment whom we haven’t seen in six years. (Yeah, we’re just as mystified as you…
In response to this: Avoid the hoopla and the hate and be you. It’s almost Memorial Day Weekend and people all over the nation are…
George Bleecher re-examines Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, and looks at the similarities between the Gilded Age and today.
Charles Frazier is to be honored by his hometown. North Carolina residents plan to burn dollar bills to celebrate Frazier’s $8 million advance.
Singapore is lifting its chewing gum ban, but not without a few stipulations: (a) only 19 medicinal brands will be allowed, (b) anyone dealing black…
Trashotron has an audio interview with Tom Perrotta. I plan to listen to it later, but my hope is that they clarified the goldfish controversy….
In one of the most inspired and frabjous convergences of online talent, Yankee Pot Roast talks with Robert Birnbaum.
“con-fuse”: When an author uses his reputation to offer an overlong and unedited book, thus conning his audience into buying or reading it, and eventually…
Outlook India takes a look at Kamala Markandaya, who passed away a week and a half ago. Markandaya was a pioneering Indian author writing in…
The Last Samurai (which has nothing to do with Tom Cruise) author Helen DeWitt has pulled a Spalding Gray. She disappeared shorty after emailing a…
My man Rake reports that “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,” a story from David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion is up. The big surprises? No footnotes…
Denmark is gearing up for the bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen. Two exhibitions are underway. One will wander through Europe, Asia and North America. The…
Brendan Gullifer offers some literary pitch ideas: “When you’re a struggling artist, like me, the F-word always grabs attention. Writing a novel has used up…
Reuters: “The United Nations has estimated that one million people have been displaced by fighting in Darfur and calls it the largest humanitarian emergency worldwide….
There’s a moment in Superman II where E.G. Marshall, playing the President of the United States, appears on television, announcing to the nation that he…
The London Times business section examines, of all things, the economics of writing with crime writer Julian Rathbone.
The Guardian: “[Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt] insisted there were ‘no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would…
Until now, only ten important people were aware of their existence. The Tupperware people knew of similar creatures for sealed pies and pastries, but they…
We have no time these days, but our colleagues do. Maud interviews Jonathan Ames, Lizzie takes on Alice Randall, and you can find Sarah in…
The Chronicle talks with Diana Abu-Jaber about Arab-American identity. She notes that since there are so few literary depictions of Arab life in America that…
The Sacramento Bee gets into the auctorial interview game and talks with Jane Smiley about how selling the film rights to A Thousand Acres has…
Novelist E.L. Doctorow was booed at Columbia University while delivering a commencement speech attacking Bush. Financier George Soros offered a similar anti-Bush speech at Hofstra,…
The New Yorker: “After directing the driver to East Seventy-second Street, she said she wanted to make it clear that, while she loves her bloggers,…
Graham has a spiffy new layout, with a decided Kottke influence. But thanks to the colors, his integration of remaindered link content is something a…
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