Rick Simonson: “More than ever, it would then seem, it is time to publicly raise the question as to why Amazon has done nothing, absolutely…
From Publishers Lunch: Fans of Anne Lamott in Omaha have rallied to secure an appearance by the author in the wake of an abrupt cancellation…
Regarding Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke, I have calls and emails into various people at Simon & Schuster, and I have tracked down the book’s publicist….
The Knight Shift: “So Viacom took a video that I had made for non-profit purposes and without trying to acquire my permission, used it in…
More and more, I’m finding myself to be a political fraud. Here I am, ostensibly progressive, and yet silently buffeting a nation in which the…
Darby Dixon reflects upon this business of fiction writing. No, you won’t completely understand it. But write every day. Do something every day. Keep some…
The Rake asks what the connection is, exactly, between David Foster Wallace and Proust — other than their respective propensities for writing long novels.
Philip Jose Farmer has a MySpace page. Now if he can only get his ass on Facebook! (via Locus)
The September/October 2007 issue of Poets and Writers includes an interview with Teresa Weaver, in which she is asked about the future of book reviewing…
Techcrunch’s Duncan Riley unearths this YouTube morsel (the irony here being that uploading such a clip to YouTube also requires written permission from the NFL)….
“American creative energy has always teetered on the brink of insanity. ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and ‘The Night Chicago Died’ have, alas, common DNA, the DNA…
I’m now juxtaposing many tasks against a slate of time that is currently incapable of bracing all of them. I hope to return in better…
It would appear that if you play two copies of tracks from Radiohead’s Kid A in shifting intervals, the two tracks line up and complement…
Scotsman: “And Shriver, 50, condemned game shows that ‘create cruelty and humiliation,’ endless reruns of Friends, weight-loss programmes, a ‘lunatic profusion of British property shows’…
MSNBC: “Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and…
Amy Winehouse’s father-in-law is now leading a campaign to boycott Winehouse’s music until she seeks treatment for drug addiction. This is certainly an ethical dilemma…
I’ve just learned that the Terre Haute bloggers are now planning a six-week symposium entitled How to Discourage Reading Through Soporific Lectures. They are currently…
If there are any NY-based blog readers fluent in Japanese, please get in touch with Sarah off-blog. If there are any Japan-based blog readers fluent…
Variety: “Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still,’ its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi…
It’s now an ungodly hour in the early morning and I’m currently more inclined to Lindy hop than sleep. Guess it’s time for a roundup!…
Red alert! Months after I asked what had happened to the fantastic novelist Nicholson Baker, we now have an answer! Nicholson Baker is coming out…
Editor & Publisher: “At least 25 of the 200 or so “Opus” client newspapers might not run the Sunday-only comic’s next two episodes, which feature…
Forbes: “A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman’s cries for help for more than an hour as…
My review of Rupert Thomson’s Death of a Murderer appears in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.
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