Starpulse: “After years of delays, Ayn Rand’s famous novel ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is being made into a feature film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, according…
Terry Teachout offers some interesting thoughts about the way politicians. publicists, and people for the most part fail to state what’s really on their mind,…
…this is just plain crazy. I was in the neighborhood a few hours later, but I assure you that I had NOTHING to do with…
At the risk of postulating neuroses writ large, I have slept seven and a half of the past seventy-two hours. As I snoozed during five…
Folks, I have officially burned out. Five days, four interviews. No sleep, bad dietary habits. Two more podcasts from me before some weekend R&R, but…
Jane Jacobs has died. A fuller obit from me will come as soon as I get the time. (via Frances)
This guy (NSFW) claims he can help you take better dirty pictures. Among some of his tips: “Seem complicated? Not at all. You just have…
IHT: “Some 6,500 languages are spoken in the world today. And according to the 2000 census, you can hear at least 92 of them on…
So let me get this straight? I labor long and hard over a podcast, and Apple throws ads into it, debases what I’m trying to…
New York Times: “For fees that range from a few hundred dollars for a two-day class to a few thousand for adventures that can be…
The Independent: “A 19-year-old Harvard student whose debut novel was set to become the next sensation of the American literary world has been accused of…
Over at The Happy Booker, another Colson appearance has been registered. As for our own thoughts on Apex Hides the Hurt, we will say that…
Life (and other things) has been treating us quite well, which is to say that we’re too occupied with this glorious thing called living and…
Your man has his paws on a galley of T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk, to which he offers many thanks to the parcel gods of Manhattan….
Over at Michelle’s, some interesting questions have been raised: Is sex better than writing? Is writing better than masturbation? And, seeing as how writing and…
I sometimes take it for granted that a writer as good as Michelle Tea is in my hometown. And I feel utterly ashamed that she…
This will only be of solace to you if you’re as much of an audio geek as I am, but Peter Kirn has the scoop…
Severe sleep deficit which permits me to see beyond time, crazed schedule. So another roundup: Another day, another array of crazed parents declaring that the…
Variety: “Project, to be penned by [J.J.] Abrams and ‘MI3′ scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, will center on the early days of seminal ‘Trek’…
Millenia Black writes that the publisher of her second book, The Great Betrayal, is demanding that she change her characters from Caucasian to African-American before…
The Biderbecke Affair points to an NYT review, which resembles not so much criticism, but an epidemic of rabies: And before we go any further,…
Dan Wickett serves up a you are there report on a recent Colson Whitehead reading in Ann Arbor, MI.
An interesting excerpt from The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (coming from the Continuum Books people), suggesting that Dave Stewart’s only worthwhile function in the music world…
Paul Constant, writing in The Stranger, serves up a contrarian review of Black Swan Green: “Black Swan Green could prove to be Mitchell’s most acclaimed…
Having become a Moleskine junkie last year against my better judgment, I’m a bit sad to hear that the company that makes those delicious books…
By BREAKSTS penny stock