PICTURED LEFT: Henry James, author of The American Scene PICTURED RIGHT: Winston Churchill, author of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
PICTURED LEFT: Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook PICTURED RIGHT: Unidentified woman in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother.”
PICTURED LEFT: Neal Pollack, former satirist and one-time front man of band. PICTURED RIGHT: Jack Black, former satirist and one-time front man of band.
PICTURED LEFT: William T. Vollmann, with pistol. PICTURED RIGHT: Francis Ford Coppola, with pistol.
The Chronicle: “Onuma Chumsri, a 24-year-old Thai woman awaiting sentence for drug trafficking, was the winner Thursday night of the annual Miss Spring contest at…
PICTURED LEFT: Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. PICTURED RIGHT: James Callis, “Dr. Gaius Baltar” from Battlestar Galactica [NOTE: Both…
PICTURED LEFT: Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird. PICTURED RIGHT: Richard Kline, “Larry” from Three’s Company. (Inspired by Languor Management.)
Voodoo Lounge author Christian Bauman has apparently promised to reveal some of his personal foibles or, minimally, to blog naked during his guest appearance today…
First, DeLay gets indicted. And now Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Lewis Libby, has been outed by Judith Miller. Corruption leading all the way up to…
From a 1975 interview with William Tenn (aka Philip Klass): “I think we live in the freeest goddamn time in the history of Man. Insanely…
Over at Maud’s, Tayari Jones (of whom we approve) weighs in on the Jim Crow approach to literature seen in Barnes & Noble and other…
We’ve only just been released from the hospital and we’re spending a good deal of time adjusting to our unexpected euphoria. We have some things…
The minute I heard the news that Tom DeLay had been indicted, I experienced a sudden burst of euphoria. I felt a wave of equanamity…
I have to ask: What is the point of playing a board game when you can’t screw someone over? Is not the purpose of a…
Like other folks, I had seen this Heidi Julavits article on nudity just before I checked in. It was one of the last things I…
This afternoon, as I was holding a cold compress to my lower lip, hoping that my toothache would go away, I found the following handwritten…
Today, I obtained a Xanax subscription. If the Xanax fails, then I’ll try Trazodone. If the Trazodone fails, I’ll have to resort to stuffing sizable…
Don Adams has passed on. Damn. I grew up with that curious generation just at the beginning of the Internet (i.e., the Usenet days) and…
Over at Beatrice, Emily Gordon covers the New Yorker. J-Franz and J-Updike make cameo appearances. Laila Lalami meets Salman Rushdie and gets an unexpected surprise….
1 Blog life changes fast. Blog life changes more times than you can change your underwear. You sit down to lunch and you know that…
The Love Parade, the Blues Festival, Webzine 2005, antiwar protests, and that remarkably sunny weather that creeps into San Francisco during this time of the…
Situation: There are more books here than I can possibly read. I would like to give all of these books a fair chance, given that…
Just when you thought that Oprah had confined herself to dead writers and the “Summer of Faulkner,” Oprah recently announced a return to living writers….
1. I have recently discovered The Avalanches. If you enjoy goofball hip-hop with a wide range of samples and influences, then I highly recommend their…
In lieu of content today, I’ll point to a meme uncovered by Rasputin: 1. Go into your archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest…
Detroit News: Rita could push economy over edge. NASA evacuating Johnson Space Center. Kas Log: Storms May Do What Politicans Cannot. Flickr Rita Tag. USA…
Rita: the third largest hurricane in history. Source of Texas oil supply. Population thankfully moving north. This will not be pretty.
The Los Angeles Times: “The paperback publisher of Tom Wolfe’s unevenly reviewed latest novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons” is hoping that a dramatically redesigned cover…
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