A man badgers a woman for $50 for dinner because she wouldn’t agree to go on a second date with him. Sociopathic behavior ensues (with…
Origin point, pulled from Gwenda. 1. Have you ever been searched by the cops? Yes. And I can only imagine how often I’d be searched…
I came close, but I didn’t quite finish the next Segundo podcast last night. But I hope to unleash it either today or tomorrow for…
Dan at Pamie.com tried this experiment out. List twenty-five opening sentences of blog entries started in the past two months (in my case, twenty-four over…
Jim Baen, former editor of Galaxy and one of e-publishing’s early proponents, has died.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Sara Gran has thankfully stepped into the comments to set the record straight on what she views as "honest" prose. I apparently misinterpeted...
Marie Antoinette. Make it stop! (via Romancing the Tome) Happy birthday Babar! (via Bookninja) Chris Bolton has single-handedly convinced me to read Scott Smith’s The…
Now I’m kicking myself for not seeing them when they played the Fillmore. At least there’s still Quasi.
This morning, Publishers Weekly reported that Books, Inc. would be taking over the space now being abandoned by A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Books. This…
What Microsoft adCenter has to say about you, the reading audience: 48% of you are male, 52% of you are female. Microsoft predicts that 24.60%…
Roger Ebert: “This is a glum, lackluster movie in which even the big effects sequences seem dutiful instead of exhilarating. The newsroom of the Daily…
The time has come to take a stand. The New York Times Book Review is no longer a book review section that matters. It is…
The Literary Saloon: “Tanenhaus’ approach is so antithetical to almost everything we believe in that we really find it hard to believe anybody could approach…
Word on the street is that Harper Lee has written something for Oprah. This is the second essay that she’s written in 40 years, which…
The extremely entertaining tale (along with the inevitable podcast) on how the below happened will follow shortly. (I even got to meet Rosie.) For now,…
Various tasks currently occupy my attention. Will return on Tuesday. Visit fine folks on right, commit minor infractions, you know the drill.
Author: Hal Niedzviecki Condition of Mr. Segundo: Temporarily replaced, due to being incapable of being crass and making a generalization at the same time. Subjects…
1 out of 99 literary critics agree that I, Edward Champion, am one of the great underrated novelists working today. And while the one critic…