It’s the last week of April, and we are still hunting around for writers who have died, particularly those who have died in an unusual…
It’s the death day of Iceberg Slim, who passed away eighteen years ago on April 27, 1992. Iceberg Slim is not to be confused with…
George Jonas’s piece, which apparently wasn’t examined by a single copy editor, can be read here. (Thanks to Joe Clark for the heads up.)
It’s the death day of Hart Crane, who passed away seventy-eight years ago on April 27, 1932. Hart Crane committed suicide. But it was a…
It’s the death day of Hubert Selby, Jr., who passed away six years ago on April 26, 2004. Selby died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,…
It’s the death day of Wright Morris, who passed away twelve years ago on April 25, 1998. Back in 1910, this famed Nebraskan writer (the…
My short film “The Most Important Absence” (January 2010), made to address exploitation: A recent Lane Bryant commercial banned by ABC (April 2010), made to…
It’s the death day of Willa Cather, who passed away sixty-three years ago on April 24, 1947. The word “dead” can be found seven times…
If you plan on attending the 6th Annual Round Table Writer’s Conference, please be advised that I will be part of the “Building a Writer’s…
Yesterday, Mark Medley, an amicable gentleman from the National Post, contacted me by telephone to talk about Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil and my review,…
Bennett Cerf’s At Random conveys an amusing anecdote concerning Gertrude Stein. Stein told Cerf that she loved seeing her writing in print and asked Cerf…
Locus Magazine reports the sad news that George Scithers, who was a founding editor of Asimov’s, an editor of Amazing Stories, and who revived Weird…
Well, Good Ol’ Sven is at it again, dissing the digital age as an abject obverse to the novel. Some questions: 1. If Sven’s students…
HTML Giant has published an email that is now making the rounds, whereby One Story is attempting to fleece students for a one-week workshop (priced…
On the evening of April 18, 2010, my girlfriend and I were alarmed to discover perfectly good books — which included four volumes of Saul…
Always be nice to everybody you meet. As soon as you leave town, word will begin spreading on the lecture circuit as to how difficult…
Juan José Campanella and Allison Amend both appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #331. Mr. Campanella is most recently the co-writer and director of The…
Ladies and gentlemen, I have written a 10,000 word essay outlining, in intricate and long-winded form, every single evil that the blog HTML Giant has…
There comes a rare time — perhaps once every ten or fifteen years — when you read a book with such dreadful syntax, without even…
My review of Lionel Shriver’s novel, So Much for That, runs in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. Here’s the first paragraph: In We Need to Talk About…
Julie Klausner most recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #330. Ms. Klausner is most recently the author of I Don’t Care About Your Band…
Nell Irvin Painter appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #329. Painter is most recently the author of The History of White People. Condition of Mr….
I. I am thinking about thinking, and I wonder if I am truly thinking. If my brain is attaching itself around a concept and that…
In today’s Philly Inquirer, you’ll find my review of Donald E. Westlake’s Memory, published by Hard Case Crime. Here’s the first few paragraphs: The celebrated…
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