Chipper Jones pops the ball. It looks like it’s going to be your garden-variety line drive. But Tulowitzki’s on it, rushing to second base before…
China Miéville wants more opinionated children’s literature. (via Sarah) Kate Bollock talks with Lydia Davis. (via Maud) Linked elsewhere but worth your time: Chabon’s rewriting…
Years later, there’s little in the way of vocal improvement (in fact, there is a marked decline), and there’s a troubling reliance upon stage presence…
Smoking Gun: “A Pennsylvania woman claims that her teaching career has been derailed by college administrators who unfairly disciplined her over a MySpace photo that…
There are more arguments against the current NBCC approach from Colleen, Jeff and Marydell. Michael Dirda and I have emailed. He’s a reasonable guy and…
Stephen Elliott: “Studies have consistently shown that people with more screens open get less done. Multitasking slows down productivity.” Uncited studies have also shown that…
Here are the most popular Segundo podcasts from the last month. 10. Dana Spiotta 9. Amy Sedaris 8. Nina Hartley 7. Jennifer Weiner 6. The…
BBC: “He asked for the ‘media circus’ to end and hoped it would not detract from the message of preventing AIDS.”
If you hit the Litblog Co-Op site this morning, you may be wondering what happened to Shows #110-112. Well, have no fear. They haven’t disappeared….
(This is the first in a series of posts addressing Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur.) It won’t hit bookstores until June 5,…
Print is Dead: “In talking about the drawbacks to having the Book Review now appear mostly online, instead of in the actual newspaper, John Freeman…
There are reports surfacing that Sam Tanenhaus has attended tonight’s Edgar Awards ceremony. Also, it would appear that there are some rebels working against the…
Ever since discovering radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in Kevin Starr’s invaluable California history books years ago, I’ve long been fascinated by her. McPherson is…
Amy Finnerty: “Martin Amis excels at descriptions of creepy men–sweaty misogynists, soused lowlifes, and thugs.” Ms. Finnerty says this like it’s a bad thing! A…
Scott Esposito, who before moving to Mexico was once referred to in certain quarters as the Sexiest Man in Oakland and who remains, at least…
It looks like the Mystery Writers of America share the SFWA’s troubling inability to understand that we’re now in the 21st century. Sarah has distressing…
John Freeman on blogs: “It’s one thing to accept advertising money: that’s what has kept papers afloat for years. It’s quite another to make a…
Musicians and podcasters might find these links of interest (and I certainly plan to employ some of these tricks, now that I’ve discovered some open…
Howard Hendrix: “I’m also opposed to the increasing presence in our organization of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free. A scab…
Roger Ebert: “We spend too much time hiding illness. There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better…
The Boston Globe‘s Geoff Edgers has done some reporting on the Mike Daisey walkout mentioned here on Saturday. It seems that, contrary to Daisey’s claims,…
No Fear for the Future has collected movie moments in which authors show up for no reason. (via Bookslut) Joshua Ferris hunts classic fiction for…
A 1972 documentary with Anthony Burgess, Malcolm McDowell, and critic William Everson (who appears to be reading off cue cards) on A Clockwork Orange. Highlights…
Jesus. Journalist-popular historian David Halberstam has died in a car crash. Halberstam was the author of The Best and the Brightest, one of the first…
Haggis informs me that the NBCC has initiated a new campaign to save book reviews. There’s even a handy-dandy graphic, which you can pilfer on…
In my view, one of the greatest cinematic sex scenes of all time was in Michael Mak’s 1992 film Sex and Zen (alas, YouTube fails…
The Eisner Award nominations have been announced, and one of the delightful surprises is Bob Burden’s extremely surreal work for the Gumby comic, which includes…
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