Molly Ivins has passed away. I’m speechless. I can’t imagine a world without a Molly Ivins newspaper column. Hopefully, I can serve up some kind…
Escapegrace: “Anyway…at one point, Silverblatt recounted the interviews he had conducted earlier in the week – Mailer on The Castle in the Forest and Dave…
Jonathan Ames: “On the oral-sex front, I then made a concerted effort to lick the labia, which was something I’ve been guilty of neglecting in…
Here is the first paragraph of David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” rewritten: Lane A. Dean, Jr. and his girlfriend sat at a picnic table. They’d…
This morning, Jim Milliot reports that Perseus has received signed agreements from “more than 10″ ex-PGW publishers. Presumably, this is the 70 cents on the…
Hitch on One Hundred Years: “For this reader, the most arresting episode in the Macondo saga was the epidemic of insomnia that afflicted the tribe.”…
A former Perseus employee has emailed me, observing the following: Perseus is more concerned with the distribution end of the business rather than the publishing…
Robert Sullivan: “For the past two decades, New York has been an inspiration to other American cities looking to revive themselves. Yes, New York had…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Contemplating his vampiristic sensibilities. Author: Christopher Moore Subjects Discussed: WordStar word processors, using the nouns “monkey love” and “guy,” Midwestern vernacular,…
Neighbor receives aggressive notes from crazy neighbor; high school teacher discovers story and has his students read the letters set to music, as well as…
It’s Stephen Graham Jones Week at the LBC. Look for copious discussion, prolific guest posts from the author and a podcast interview conducted by the…
Long-time readers know that I once made a deal with a daemon. An evil eidolen answering to the name of Bee promised that if I…
Back in October, a commenter by the name of Daniel Dagan posted a comment here pointing to textual similarities between Alice Hutchison’s Kenneth Anger and…
From The Last Novel: “Reviewers who have accused Novelist of inventing some of his anecdotes and/or quotations — without the elemental responsibility to do the…
Babble: “Like surprisingly many people, I have always held a vague abhorrence for Neal Pollack. Could it be his claim to be the ‘Greatest Living…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fleeing from disco. Guests: Anne Fernald and Valerie Trueblood Subjects Discussed: Weaknesses for beautiful books, life as “structured anarchy,” the definition…
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Trying to get the lay of the land. Author: Richard Ford Subjects Discussed: Bill Buford’s “dirty realism,” inland vs. coastal territory…
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which…
Pioneer Press: “A physicist and lifelong tinkerer, Borchardt revolutionized the breakfast cereal industry. He had a big hand in developing the technologies that allow cereal…
My score is 27, but I think this test is a load of phooey. Any test that declares me this intelligent based on a fucking…
Jewish Journal: “But to really understand why people still come to Hollywood, and why they continue to pitch and write on spec, or still write…
Editor & Publisher: “Speaking to hundreds of Los Angeles Times journalists in the newspaper’s Harry Chandler auditorium this morning, editor James O’Shea outlined a bold…
Bookish Love: “Doctorow gave the longest reading I’ve ever attended, clocking in at about 40 minutes. Although the writing was captivating and he included a…
Laura Miller: “We’re so used to linking masculinity with carnivorousness that we seldom stop to recognize how illogical it is. Just because vegetarianism is correlated…
But He Also Forgot Core Areas of Math, Geography and Where to Get the Best Tapas in His Neighborhood
Scientific American: “A patient who damaged his left insula, a region of the brain located deep within the cortex on either lateral side, may have…
There’s one other thing I should note about Malcolm Jones’ laziness. I was contacted by the book’s publicist to interview Vikram Chandra. I offered profuse…
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