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. More details to follow, as soon as I learn them.
Year / 2007
The Critical Elite Throws a Party
Dustin Hoffman: Stiffest Dude on the Stage
Poetry Mashup
T.S. Eliot vs. Portishead. (via MeFi)
The Copyright Hypocrites at Viacom
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 a for-profit broadcast. And then when I made a YouTube clip of what they did with my material, they charged me with copyright infringement and had YouTube pull the clip.”