There is little to be said about Mel Gibson that hasn’t been said already. But I have to ask why Gibson’s anti-Semitic remarks, which shouldn’t…
You know that John W. Campbell series of stories, beginning with “The Machine” and continuing with “The Invaders” and several other stories in The Machine…
According to the Amazon Bookstore Blog, a new William Gibson novel is set to be released in the middle of 2007. Some portions of the…
BusinessWeek: “Like almost everyone, Indian operators dislike dealing with abusive customers frustrated by shoddy service. But more important, India’s leading outsourcing shops say their U.S….
IOL: “The gorilla is threatened with extinction by the mid-21st century if poaching and destruction of its habitat continue at the current rate, the United…
New York Times Corrections: “A film review on Wednesday about ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ referred incorrectly to contestants in the fictional children’s beauty pageant of the…
Editor and Publisher: “‘The online editions of newspapers are providing a bit of a life raft for newspapers,’ Kohut said. ‘But it’s a pretty small…
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “Though romance writing remains an almost exclusively female vocation, some men have ventured into the field. Former Green Beret Bob Mayer, who has…
New York Times: “The Washington Post, The New York Sun and The Daily Oklahoman, in Oklahoma City, have contracted with an online news aggregator, Inform.com,…
Benjamin Kunkel on Samuel Beckett: “Easy on the eyes, Beckett is, however, a hard read. His plays continue to be performed, but as a novelist—and…
Cerado: “In an exclusive e-mail exchange with our editors, the reclusive vowel talks about what he’s been doing since the year 2000, his investment strategy,…
BBC: “Speaking to the Radio Times, the Evita composer said he did not have ‘a huge desire’ to write another musical.”
Pinky remembers Rupert Pole, who recently passed away. Pole was otherwise known as Anais Nin’s lover and (later) executor of her estate. But if it…
The London Times: “And that, I think, explains some aspects of the critical response. They want their terrorists to be explicable in the most banal…
So there’s a mysterious publicity stunt that was announced over at Galleycat. Apparently, a book that will have an initial print run of 300,000, categorized…