Wayne Kramer has made two exceptional motion pictures. The Cooler presented us with the wild premise of a pathetic loser played by William H. Macy…
Charlie Huston appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #267. Charlie Huston is most recently the author of The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of…
Catherynne M. Valente appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #266. Catherynne M. Valente is most recently the author of Palimpsest. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Looking…
Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #265. Neil deGrasse Tyson is most recently the author of The Pluto Files. Condition of Mr….
There’s a lot of fresh content that will be unloaded onto these pages over the course of the day, including three podcasts and a film…
A new issue of h+ Magazine has left the building. The quarterly magazine, edited by the incomparable R.U. Sirius, features contributions from the likes of…
As I pointed out more than a year ago, Amazon has been offering monthly blog subscriptions to Kindle readers, but, in some cases, it hasn’t…
Now imagine living a life, like Elizabeth Gilbert, in which you’re convinced that your greatest success is behind you. That seems to me a boring…
Case Study 1: During Presidents Day Weekend, the software company Valve tried out an experiment. Valve, the company behind the successful Half-Life franchise, temporarily halved…
Dick Meyer’s sad, little article about the impending death of newspapers fails to pinpoint several root causes. The end of stand-alone book review sections may…
This above graph continues our very important series, Meaningless Infographs, in which various infographs, often of a personal nature, are presented to the public in…
In an effort to keep things somewhat unpredictable, I will be juxtaposing meaningless infographs — most of them of a personal nature — at random…
Well, the Gerald Celente post continues to draw plenty of haters to this site. And that’s fine. Because everybody needs a hobby. But I’m pleased…
Beginning on March 2, 2009, this website will be kickstarting a lengthy roundtable discussion of Eric Kraft’s Flying over the course of the week. (For…
It was bad enough with all the apps and the winks and the intrusive nonsense that greeted you every time you logged on, but this…
There will be one last (and extremely lengthy) post that will attempt to corral all of my remaining notes concerning Tools of Change, which will…
Why in the hell would anyone want to see a reboot of Friday the 13th? Well, the killings, of course. Jason has such a physics-defying…
While the proprietor attempts to come to terms with the many emails that poured in over the last several days, the considerable notes he took…
The New York Times may very well be the only newspaper that has an R&D Lab. And as Nick Bilton boasted on Wednesday morning at…
Panelists: Kassia Kroszer (moderator), Angela James, Malle Valik, Sarah Wendell (For related coverage, you can check out my video interview with Wendell shortly after the…
Panelists: Mark Coker (moderator), Joe Wikert, April Hamilton, David Rothman, Russell Wilcox If I had to compare Tuesday’s panel with Terminator 3: Rise of the…
Jon Orwant is a highly confident man. Some might say (and a few certainly did to me) that he is one of the great egotists…
The morning started off with Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s worth pointing out that for…
During a morning in which news of layoffs at HarperCollins and the future of BookExpo America was severely reduced in time and topography, here at…
Or does he? Has Rep. Paul Kanjorski ever known a day without a hot meal? Or a day in which he had to scrape together…