No mention of SPECTRE’s presence within slush piles or the ridiculous signing demands of Elder Statesmen (accompanied by their egos), but Secret Agent has launched…
Edinburgh hopes to add a walking tour to the Royal Mile. Three refurbished Truman Capote volumes have been released in time for Capote’s 80th birthday….
It was missed yesterday, but Today in Literatue celebrated the work of William McGonagall, who was, without a doubt, the Bulwer-Lytton of poetry. Here’s McGonagall…
George Lucas on the Three Stooges films: “I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Return of the Reluctant has obtained an excerpt from Breaking Wind: The Quest for Architectural Hubris in an Age of Terror by noted...
“Our goal was to give you a book with every recipe you want.” Apparently, that’s the purpose of The Gourmet Cookbook, which weighs six pounds…
The History of Punctuation (via Jeff) The American Bar Association has published its first work of fiction and folks in Miami are trying to find…
Carrie has the scoop on Norman Mailer and her mom: “Her courtroom work in Boston had put her in contact with a lot snakes and…
Michael Berry compares the last volume of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle with the last volume of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series: “Stephenson, on the other…
Mulk Raj Anand, one of India’s best-known English writers, has passed on. He was a few months shy of 100.
Rasputin’s extremely touching words have reached me. And perhaps I should clarify a few things: 1. When someone like TMFTML retires or posts infrequently to…
Bad enough that they bastardized Riverworld, but now Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy is being turned into a Sci-Fi Channel series.
Contrary to popular belief, the phrases “dearly beloved, we have come together…” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” can’t be found in the Bible….
Norman Mailer will appear on an episode of The Gilmore Girls — apparently, as a tea drinker. Now if the Gilmore Girls producers were really…
The MacArthur Foundation has announced more geniuses. Among the literary types: poet C.D. Wright, Rueben Martinez (who has taught Spanish-speaking people to appreciate literature), The…
This morning, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg hiked the MOMA price from $12 to $20, part of a larger plan that will transform Manhattan museums…
Sun-Times: “Hemingway scholar J. Gerald Kennedy, who has a copy, guffawed out loud as he paraphrased the story over the phone. The main character kills…
Sarah’s first column at the Sun is out. Check it out, pref. with BugMeNot. And this piece pretty much makes a case against any future…
We’re stuck at home on a beautiful day waiting for the damn gas man to show up so we can cook again. There are also…
If you live in San Francisco and you grew up watching Creature Features, your prayers have been answered. 20 Godzilla movies in seven days, Bob…
Liz Penn serves up The Brown Bunny review to end all Brown Bunny reviews: “But during the course of this trip, you come to realize…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the Superfriends have remained silent, to foster variegated opinions and commentaries on this blog, I have enlisted Professor Timothy Stuyvesant (rumored to...
Mark’s posted a fantastic comparison between Cloud Atlas and The Great Fire, daring to put his literary sensibilities on the edge while chronicling how his…
Twin Farms, the working farm where Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson (inspiration for the Hepburn film Woman of the Year) once resided, is alive and…
By the way, folks, Michael Schaub is kicking some butt this week at the Bookslut blog (I didn’t know that Toni Morrison was a smoker),…
Dear Diary: Seldom do I consider subject-verb agreement when telling you what I’ve done. In fact, the entire development of my career (which should pay…
The Book Babes’ latest column not only acts as if none of last year’s comparisons between comatose newspaper coverage and the galvanizing eclat of literary…
Well, if Maud is going to come out of the woodworks as a Doctor Who fan, then I should also point out that the radio…
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