1. No matter what happens in the present or the future, I will not remove a name or a reference from any past blog post….
Fiona Maazel appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #212. Maazel is the author of Last, Last Chance. [LISTENING NOTE! Please note that this show contains…
Based on the steady onslaught (or is that recent onset?) of dumb feature articles within the Atlantic‘s pages these days, it would seem to me…
Ed Park appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #211. Park is most recently the author of Personal Days. His book was reviewed today in the…
This season’s penultimate episode of Doctor Who, “The Stolen Earth,” was a big fuck you to the fans, giving them everything they seemed to want,…
This morning’s Publishers Weekly features an alarmist “report” from Rachel Deahl that is more fixated upon rumors and conjecture than actual reporting. Deahl, without citing…
The time has come to pity the rich. $10 million doesn’t go nearly as far as it once did in New York. And the situation…
Cynthia Ozick appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #210. Ozick is most recently the author of Dictation. Condition of the Show: Overtaken by a tyrannical…
Sloane Crosley appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #209. She is the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake, which was recently sold to…
Within blocks of my apartment, there is a dumpster serving as a veritable buffet for vermin. Last night, while walking home, I observed the most…
I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall… Why???? I understand if people don’t worship me because I…
Since there has been some emails from a few folks, let me clear up some confusion. I should point out that there are now fifteen…
Tobias Wolff appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #208. Wolff is most recently the author of Our Story Begins. Condition of the Show: Speculating upon…
Dwight Garner and Sam Tanenhaus, the two spineless editors who insult the intelligence of their audience every Sunday at the New York Times Book Review,…
With Vonnegut and now Carlin gone, the time has come for truthful lacerations. Words that crackle the delicate hides of prissy and solipsistic dispositions and…
David Hajdu appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #207. Hajdu is most recently the author of The Ten-Cent Plague. Condition of the Show: Dabbling into…
No words. The man was a genius, a major inspiration for me, a cunning linguist and iconoclast, and he will be sorely missed. There isn’t…
“Turn Left” isn’t quite as appalling as last year’s “This didn’t really happen” two-part Doctor Who finale. But it’s still filled with Russell T. Davies’s…
It started earlier this week when Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate to forgo public money. It continued yesterday when Barack Obama pledged support…
Sarah Hall appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #206. Hall is most recently the author of Daughters of the North (published in the UK as…
The roundup could have occurred. But since I have become reliant upon Bloglines for my influx of information and since I have attempted to be…
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has done some investigation, and it appears that the so-called Media Bloggers Association, which purports to represent bloggers in the AP nonsense…
Despite constant MySpace page deletions, Blah Blah Blah, not to be confused with the Iggy Pop album, is the real deal. As far as I…
Paul Constant: “One publicist in the Macmillan booth spots my name tag and yells at me for a negative review of a memoir by Mike…
The American Scholar: “But it isn’t just a matter of class. My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy…
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