My review of Gail Godwin’s Unfinished Desires appears in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. Here’s the first paragraph: Over the past half-century, the extreme religious right, as…
As widely reported, Amazon has removed all Macmillan titles from its site. This means that you won’t be able to buy new print or digital…
Sue Grafton recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #320. Grafton is most recently the author of U is for Undertow. Condition of Mr. Segundo:…
The Associated Press is reporting that JD Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, has died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire….
If your ambitions are confined to nothing more than ambling up a twenty-foot hill and declaring this easily accomplished task as something special, that’s perfectly…
Gail Godwin recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #319. Godwin is most recently the author of Unfinished Desires. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Combating an…
I’ve interviewed the extremely entertaining writer Charlie Huston twice now for The Bat Segundo Show: once in 2007, where Huston rather devilishly attempted (and failed)…
At some unspecified point in the future, words will be transmitted along these pages at the older frequency. But my services, such as they are,…
There are numerous ways to donate to Haiti. Here are text-based donation options in the United States. SMS text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10…
Peniel Joseph appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #318. Mr. Joseph is most recently the author of Dark Days, Bright Nights. Condition of Mr. Segundo:…
The above film, “The Most Important Absence,” is the first one I’ve made in 2010. And I intend to put together several more of them….
Inspired by recent experiments conducted by Predictably Irrational, whereby Dan Ariely typed in certain terms into the Google search bar and Google preceded to suggest…
Here is a listing of racist incidents involving United States Senators presently in office: BENNETT, ROBERT F. (R — UT) On March 13, 1998, during…
The vampire film has needed a kick in the ass for quite some time. Popular audiences have endured the emo complacency of the Twilight films,…
Michael Cera, a reedy actor known for grilling his thin mix of thespic tricks into crepe-like pipsqueaks quietly braying the predictable coups de foudre, is…
Observe the Major on a red carpet, and at any given moment three or four paws are on him. His heroism has been well received…
On January 6, 1910 — precisely a century ago — the Cuban boxer Kid Chocolate proceeded to undergo a ten-round bout with his mother’s uterus….
In recent months, Dave Eggers has continued to insist that newspapers, contrary to recent developments, are not dying. In May 2009, Eggers spoke before a…
In a post on Saturday, the NYTPicker, a website devoted to “the goings-on inside the New York Times,” pointed to the recent firing of Mary…
Katharine Weber appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #317. Ms. Weber is most recently the author of True Confections. She previously appeared on The Bat…