Why didn’t I know about this earlier? The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (via Scribbling Woman)
Approximately 170,000 volumes and papers have been discovered in the Cambridge University library tower. Some people believed that this stash of tomes represented little more…
In a development that should infuriate all midlisters starving and shivering in hovels right now, the Book Standard is now reporting that Barbara Walters walked…
Margaret Atwood’s Hay Journal: “Due to bureaucratic foot-dragging, things weren’t quite finished. The parking lot was a bog of squelchy red mud, the consistency my…
Social Science Research Network: “This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The…
In a column for the Chicago Sun-Times, book editor Henry Kisor announces his retirement and has some choice words for the publishing industry: In 1973,…
Chip McGrath talks with John Updike. While the results are certainly better than, say, a sycophantic and humorless conversation with Sam Tanenhaus, one reads this…
For those who have emailed me about this story, know that I am still pursuing it. I spoke with Millenia Black this morning and I…
Andy Moorer is the man behind “Deep Note,” the THX noise you are deafened with just as the THX logo pops up before a movie…
Angry Asian Man, the time has come for you to inveigh against this McDonald’s tie-in.
Helen Brown talks with Will Self: “Does he see himself as a show-off? ‘Definitely. Slightly Tourette-ish. Like any person who has difficulty with the normal…
Graphic spotted on the Gray Lady’s website: So after a mere eleven years as a columnist, Dowd’s a classic?
Yes, you too can add “Host”-style sidenotes to your blog, thanks to this nifty plug-in. But what of sidenotes within sidenotes? Come on, Arc 90….
Dave Kehr notes (and there is also this followup post) that Jami Bernard, one of the most underrated film critics working today, has not had…
Sven Birkets writes lovingly of Cynthia Ozick: “Ozick is not repudiating her literary mentor, but she cuffs him, and in doing so suggests — as…
1966: Mao Tse Tung, at 73, claims to swim some 9 miles across the Yangtze River. 2006: Pat Robertson claims to have leg-pressed 2,000 pounds…
Not only did Clerks 2 receive an 8 minute standing ovation, but Kevin Smith has recorded an audio commentary track that you can download to…
The BBC is reporting that Charles Webb has sold a sequel to The Graduate to Random House. Webb was initially reported by the BBC to…
As everyone knows, the writers-to-general population ratio in Brooklyn is considerably higher than, say, the affluent liberal-to-general population ratio of Ross, California. Thankfully, publishing houses…
A quick reminder to all that, this week, it’s Television week (and I refer not to that ignoble, phosphor-flickering box you have sitting in the…
Guests: Carolyn Kellogg, Steve Saladino, Megan Sullivan, Amanda Darling, Kassia Kroszer, Kirk Biglione, Ron Hogan, Brian Murray, Michelle Wildgen, Mike Webster, Joseph Wortenva, Laurel Snyder…
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Bad enough that we’re seeing the return of Rocky Balboa. But Rambo IV? I remain curious: who exactly is Stallone’s core audience these days? Perhaps…
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