Jennifer Weiner is a best-selling author. And while her latest novel, Best Friends Forever, proved popular enough to hit #1 on the New York Times…
J. Robert Lennon appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #300. J. Robert Lennon is most recently the author of Castle and Pieces for the Left…
Douglas Rushkoff appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #299. Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Life, Inc. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Surprised to discover someone…
China Mieville recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #298. China Mieville is most recently the author of The City & The City. He previously…
What follows are the notes I took during Lorna’s Silence, which opens in limited release this Friday: Shuffling of notes under window. Pan up to…
You can’t write a deeply critical piece on Obama and patiently explain that you’re a liberal. You can’t make fun of the homeless or the…
New York Times: “He went on doing so almost to the last. Until 1989, when he reached the age of 70, he appeared in every…
Last year, the New York Review of Books had the bright idea of commissioning Nicholson Baker to write an exuberant essay about Wikipedia. Beginning with…
Since the book blogging world changes so frequently — with its first waves and second waves, its stormy internecine battles, and its endless capacity for…
The cover for the Realms of Fantasy reboot (pictured at right) has generated a number of prissy blog posts from the likes of K. Tempest…
His life broke weeks before he became eligible to run for President. Not that he wanted the job, although if the country suddenly decided to…
It didn’t take long for the gutless Washington Post writer Neely Tucker to chicken out on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest. Beginning his article…
Early this morning, a piece appeared on these pages that took to task Neely Tucker’s article in the Washington Post. I used a historical example…
On the morning of July 21, 2009, Washington Post books editor Ron Charles expressed some concerns about book reviewers on Twitter: At the risk of…
From the latest National Book Critics Circle newsletter: Eric Banks then spoke about the blogging committee. Our blog visitor numbers, he said, are down sharply….
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This post continues my comprehensive history about the expansion of Verizon. This most recent installment takes the story through the end of 2000....
My review of Chuck Barris’s Who Killed Art Deco? appears in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. And truthfully, the review is far crankier than I remember it…
Walter Cronkite died on Friday. He was great and irreplaceable. The last living newsman that America could trust, save perhaps Jimmy Breslin. One views the…
Ellen Ruppel Shell appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #297. Ellen Ruppel Shell is most recently the author of Cheap. The book was also featured…
(This is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Other installments: Part One, Part…
(This is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Other installments: Part One, Part…
“Subway” — the fourth installment of my “Anthropological Film” series — was shot and edited on July 14, 2009. For some unknown reason, I took…
(This is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Other installments: Part One, Part…
(This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Other installments: Part One, Part…
(This is the first of a five-part roundtable discussion of Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. Other installments: Part Two, Part…
“Golden Hour,” which was shot at and around Riverside Park, is the third of what I’m calling my “anthropological films.” You can watch it above…
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #296. Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan are most recently the authors of Beyond Heaving…
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