Mike Edison appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #226. Edison is the author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go. Condition of the Show: Reinvestigating…
Peter David appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #225. He is most recently the author of Tigerheart and the Incredible Hulk novelization. Condition of the…
Transcriptease offers a very helpful summation on the racist shenanigans of Helix editor William Sanders. For those who missed out on this piece of news,…
Rick Kleffel, the prolific podcaster behind the Agony Column, gets the interview treatment from Jeff VanderMeer.
WCBS: “Cephus said he was bringing ice into a park, when he encountered two police officers checking for liquor. He dropped his bag, and says…
Proving once again that its editorial team now prefers thoughtless and narcissistic essays over writing that chronicles the human condition, the Atlantic has commissioned Ann…
In yesterday’s Huffington Post, publicist Lissa Warren expressed her dismay in “the seemingly widely-held notion that these book sections are being adequately replaced by blogs.”…
Senator Mike Gravel and Joe Lauria appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #224. Gravel and Lauria are the co-authors of A Political Odyssey. Gravel was…
Faye Flam appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #223. Flam is most recently the author of The Score. Condition of the Show: Attempting to contend…
The Diary Junction reports that, as of tomorrow, George Orwell’s diaries will be available to the public. With the exception of a few diary entries…
Because IE and Safari users were having difficulty accessing the Bat Segundo site, I’ve temporarily disabled podPress. I’ve tested the site on Firefox, Seamonkey, IE,…
The Booker longlist has been announced. There are many predictable names, but a few surprises, including Steve Toltz and Tom Rob Smith. Aravind Adiga, The…
Hitotoki, which merges fiction with a Google Maps-like interface, has unveiled a Paris version. This website seems to me a more purposeful use of location…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a continuation of my ongoing history of Verizon. Part One, which covers the months of April through August 2000, can be...
David Ulin has offered some clarifications about recent changes at the Los Angeles Times. In addition to talking with the decidedly more trustworthy Sara Nelson…
It is with great sadness that I report that Rosie, the great labrador who accompanied Robert Birnbaum on his interviews, passed away last week. I…
Between reading Sarah Hall’s three novels earlier this year and Ross Raisin’s debut novel, I’ve found to my astonishment that I’ve become more than a…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an experiment to see how blogging might be used to make sense of a rather enormous series of events. In an...
My review of David Deans’s The Defenestration of Bob T. Hash, III appears in this morning’s Sun-Times. It also appears that my byline has been…
BBC: “At least 29 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after a series of explosions struck the western Indian city of Ahmedabad,…
Rachel Donadio: “James Joyce was forever hard up for cash. Too bad he never thought of touring Europe to promote Plumtree’s potted meat or lemon-scented…
A few listeners have informed me that they are having difficulties accessing The Bat Segundo Show site using Internet Explorer and Safari. Unfortunately, the podPress…
Giles Coren is an angry man. And his fury is focused on the elision of an indefinite article in one of his articles. I do…
New York Times Corrections: “Because of an editing error, the TV Watch Column on Wednesday, comparing coverage of Senator Barack Obama’s trip overseas with coverage…
Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows! So if I understand Sarah’s post correctly, James Wood and sheepshagging jokes…
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