Okay, I fully confess (the dropoff in stats and Blogllines subscribers doesn’t lie!) that I’ve been biting the big one lately and that my posts…
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The New York Times on fat camps: “‘Maybe they’re not losing the weight specifically, but instead they’re learning something that they can use 20 years…
All is not well in the New York alt-weekly world. Gawker reports that the Village Voice has proposed a contract for its writers that not…
Geek Fantasies: an absolutely absurd take on fetishistic sites. Take Preview #2, where we see a camera crane up a blonde’s bikini-clad body. The end…
The Litigation of Everything A Few Years Late and a Sexual Orientation Short Disappearing Cash How Stella Got Her Groove Jacked Waiting for Ex in…
Salon revisits John Cheever’s first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle. (Also at Salon: the first of a four-part expose on the Church of Scientology.) Norman Mailer…
Proving once again how culturally irrelevant they are, the Book Babes have declared graphic novels as the harbinger of evil. So suggesth one Ellen Hetzel:…
Several weekends outside of the City prevented me from getting to the remainder of the BEA material I collected. But this weekend, I went through…
If you lived in Northern California and remember the UHF programming of the 1960s through the 1980s, this site has done an admirable job chronicling…
In light of the assaults on eminent domain and flag burning (and with the frightening prospect of Justice Rehnquist resigning looming in the air), there’s…
For the last 12 years, the wax has accumulated in my ears, preventing me from comprehending any book more than 200 pages. Brain cells have…
I’m trying my best to post lengthy entries (and reply to the email backlog), but other obligations have kept me firmly bogged. In the meantime,…
I have just seen the film Primer, and my head fucking hurts. But in a very good way. Do I know what went on? Somewhat….
Because one can never cover too many awards, I note that Orhan Pamuk has won the 2005 Book Trade Peace Prize. The prize is the…
M.J. Rose has put up a list of ten things not to do when publicizing your book. Beyond Rose’s troubling Miss Manners-style tone, as a…
Like the Rake, I’m mystified why no one in Denver has put this smug bastard in his place. Perhaps the concept of “When in Denver,…
Patricia Storms strikes again. This time, it’s the publishing industry. Even the LBC “controversy” gets sent up. (via Bookdwarf)
Cory Doctorow’s Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, a very nutty-looking novel about Alan, the son of a mountain and a washing machine, is,…
Three strikes against Nick Hornby: Stephen Metcalf, TMFTML and Laura Demanski. We gave up on the man after How to Be Good and suggest you…
The two-day weekend, as we know it, is a mere sixty-five years old. More at Ask Yahoo.
Ayelet Waldman: “Every popped light bulb is a catastrophe, every leaky faucet spells if not the end of the world then surely the beginning of…
Maud pointed out the Neal Pollack/Dave Eggers fracas this morning and made a case for honest criticism. I don’t have any self-serving magazine manifesto or…
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While on my book tour for The Long Emergency, I attended a place known as Raging Waters, a “waterslide theme park” that’s a first-class cesspool…
Everywhere I go these days, from swank parties to low-key affairs, I see people — charming and intelligent people who should know better — gripping…
“No woman is worth dating, much less talking to, if she can’t name the three major oceans. And if she names the fourth (established a…
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