From Jerry Felsheim’s “New York Literary Tea,” part of the aborted America Eats project that was never completed by the Federal Writers’ Project, but that…
Every once in a while, there’s a novel that’s been inexplicably ignored. Ignored in the way that a band or a movie could have been…
For more than a week now, people on both sides of the Atlantic have been wondering whether Susan Boyle is a frumpy, middle-aged cipher or…
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“Bob Semen is a freak but New York needs freaks. At his best he was hope for the hopeless and at his worst, no more…
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As Sarah Weinman reports, in a signed note on the back of the forthcoming James Ellroy novel, Blood’s a Rover, the Demon Dog of Crime…
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Jeff VanderMeer is reporting that J.G. Ballard is dead. If that last sentence doesn’t cause your heart to sink to your feet, then get thee…
Like oh my God! I would SOOOOOOOO like to meet Louisa Thomas, who like reviews, like, books for the Los Angeles Times, and who, you…
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An anonymous source has informed me that Alain Lemarchand, CEO & President of Hachette Filipacchi Media, has sent a memo to his employees. Today’s business…
After multiple attempts to contact Amazon, I have at long last received the following reply from Patty Smith by email: “This is an embarrassing and…
I was shocked to learn the terrible news that Derek Weiler, editor at Quill and Quire, has passed away at the ridiculously young age of…
It’s been called #amazonfail on Twitter, but it represents the greatest insult to consumers and the most severe commercial threat to free expression that we’re…
Observe and Report‘s most memorable moment involves the appropriately named Randy Gambill’s penis, which flaps in slow motion beneath Gambill’s developing pot belly as Seth…
One of the difficulties of managing so many projects is that I continue to forget that I am committing some of these conversations to video….
I have learned from several sources that book distributor Independent Publishers Group is not permitting its authors to know the number of books that still…
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“I’ve never been to Bavaria,” said the specialist. “Is it nice?” “I wouldn’t know,” said the Bavarian, who was still staring at the barren kernel…
The specialist’s chest heaved waves of homicidal catharsis. And while this troubled him, he nevertheless cleansed himself of that dreaded atonal compunction scaling its way…
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