To the foolish fop who dared to defend my honor at Maud’s, let it be known that I am a proud crank, a consummate dunce,…
Exhibit: Kirn’s review of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. Number of words in review: 1,399. Number of words quoted from book in review: 186 Percentage of…
Due to life circumstances, we’re pretty much done here until the 4th. We’re also still behind on our email. So apologies to all on that…
Wired: “The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people do not have a constitutional right to refuse to tell police their names. The 5-4 decision frees…
The Guardian: “Detainees held in Afghanistan by American troops have been routinely tortured and humiliated as part of the interrogation process, in the same way…
In light of moving and all, I wasn’t able to attend the California Book Awards. But now I’m regretting it. Jeff points out that the…
King Wenclas has responded to the criticisms hurled his way. He writes (in the first of two comments): Well, I’m going to defend my organization…
In a bid to avoid the real purpose of this blog, we decided to catch the wave and try harder to cater to our readers….
In Florida, Jeb Bush has unveiled a program called Read Together Florida, essentially a statewide version of Oprah’s Book Club. The first book chosen was…
TEXT: He peered sideways up and gave a long low whistle of call, then paused awhile in rapt attention, his even white teeth glistening here…
Christopher Hitchens has posted a longass essay tearing Fahrenheit 9/11 to shreds. I have no comments one way or the other. The wholesale dissection of…
AP: “While it’s long been part of the culture of the romance-novel business to accept unsolicited proposals, some publishers are making the process easier. News…
TMFTML has obtained first serial rights for My Life, which has a curious Faulkner ring to it.
Miguel Cohen, brother of Randy “Ethicist” Cohen, has expressed a desire to come back to Return of the Reluctant. After several rounds of therapy, he…
Dan Green has weighed in with a thoughtful post about the Underground Literary Alliance, that ragtag bunch of frustrated writers-cum-Yippie wannabes that I have, until…
I’ve been in the middle of packing (books — too many books), so I have no idea if the photocopies of Norman Mailer’s Xeroxed butt,…
The roommate who doesn’t get along with his fellow living mate will either address his grievances to his living mate or amicably part, working out…
Ben Jelloun has won the world’s richest fiction prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Nothing more to report today except utter depression about world…
It’s a sure bet that we were informed, but we’re so behind on email that we learned it only just recently from Maud. Tingle Alley,…
I don’t know how I missed it in the May Atlantic, but Martha Spaulding continues the ongoing fight to reinstate satirist John P. Marquand into…
Anna Funder’s Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall has won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the world’s richest non-fiction award.
The third Madonna children’s book has been declared “better” by the Canadian Press. Other reviewers have insisted that the reported increase in quality has been…
A North Carolina theatre is offering an abridged version of the complete works of William Shakespeare (in less than 90 minutes, in fact). The comedy…
“Crime expert” John L. Stanley was arrested in Kansas City minutes after robbing a bank. What’s even more surprising was the amount of incriminating evidence…
Ron Rosenbaum has nabbed the new Philip Roth novel, the alternate history novel in which Charles Lindbergh beats FDR in 1940, and devoted some 4,000…
David Kipen: “That’s the Joyce I recognize. Not the mandarin classicist who finds slang and pidgin “frightful,” but the omnivore who knew dirty jokes in…
Rejection letters from various literary magazines, as collected by Deb Schwartz. (via Moorish Girl)
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