In what may be one of the oddest cinematic adaptations of all time, First Showing’s Alex Billington reports that Run Lola Run/The International director Tom…
To jump off from the previous post, in 1973, Washington Post cut the standalone Book World section, leaving at the time only The New York…
I have learned that Thomas Gladysz, the events coordinator for the now less wonderful San Francisco bookstore Booksmith, has been let go by new owners…
In addition to a rather enormous roundtable discussion that I have in the works here (author and book to be revealed soon), I should note…
I am not necessarily opposed to romantic comedies. In fact, I even confessed to my moviegoing companion on the subway ride back that I enjoyed…
Even though there has yet to be an official announcement, the NBCC is once again unofficially “reporting” “unofficial” and unsourced news that Washington Post Book…
[UPDATE: Apparently, it's amateur hour at the New York Times. After fixing the above headline, Matt Bucher observed that The Broken Estate was not published...
I have just been informed by several people that John Updike is dead. Words fail me right now. And I have been lurched over for…
Queens Girl is a one-woman show written and performed by Lauren LoGuidice. It is playing here in New York at a venue called Stage Left…
David Denby recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #261. David Denby is most recently the author of Snark. Please also see our lengthy essay,…
Azar Nafisi recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #260. Azar Nafisi is most recently the author of Things I’ve Been Silent About, as well…
In 2006, the critic David Edelstein confirmed his cinematic cowardice by asking this of the infamous nine-minute anal rape scene in Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, “Noé…
Is it possible that the 1910 children’s novel, The Bobbsey Twins at School, was a prescient influence on hip-hop? “Oh, Snap! Snap!” cried Freddie. “Don’t…
For all future posts, whenever I make a claim, I plan on emboldening my efforts to get related individuals on the record. Likewise, because there…
On Wednesday night, Sam Tanenhaus and I talked. I was in the middle of arguing with my colleague Levi Asher about the future of literary…
Even though I have yet to hear back from Marcus Brauchli concerning the future of the Washington Post‘s book coverage, and not a single journalist…
Today is the beginning of a new epoch. The slate is clean, the road ahead is paved with shrapnel, and the body language between the…
From a fascinating collection of emails from former Google employees: In one TGIF in Kirkland, an employee informed Eric Schmidt that Microsoft’s benefits package was…
Late Friday, the National Book Critics Circle demonstrated its commitment to accuracy by reporting a rumor that The Washington Post Book World was closing up…
Back in the late 1990s, I wrote a 1,672-page novel about horse racing. Though I portrayed an array of upper-class characters and still remain more…
It changes its hours, its temperament, and its reasons for existing faster than the seasons. Faster than some contemporary hostler can rustle up fresh horses…
Patrick McGoohan changed the way I looked at television. Before McGoohan, I had believed that television was merely a medium devoted to passing entertainments. But…
The most truthful moment contained within Roberta Grossman’s documentary, Blessed is the Match, comes from parachutist Reuven Dafni. Dafni reveals, in what Grossman bills as…
For those readers who have enjoyed our lengthy roundtable discussions of Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker, Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke, and various other books, let…
Deadlines and line dancing which pertains to deadlines will keep me occupied for the better part of today. So pardon the silence while I clack…