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 with a new book. Human Smoke is due from Simon & Schuster on March 11, 2008. It is 800 pages — an unexpectedly expansive volume, categorized under 20th century history. I will be investigating additional details and reporting back anything I can find out.
Month / August 2007
How to Make an Omelet
Berkeley Breathed Returns to Rabble-Rousing?
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 Islamic references and a sex joke.”
One of the very funny strips in question can be found here.
Genovese Revisited
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 a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said Thursday.”
New Review
My review of Rupert Thomson’s Death of a Murderer appears in this Sunday’s Los Angeles Times.