The following passage is from a forthcoming novel: A navigational beacon in ___’s black Levi’s, a long-dormant transmitter buried by a more advanced civilization, was…
The video’s title is “Hard Disc – NEED HELP – Can this be fixed?” Um, no buddy, I’m pretty sure it can’t. [6/24/12 UPDATE: Here…
Due to a tremendous setback — namely, a 500 GB Barracuda hard drive, which looks to be stuck in the BSY state, containing all the…
Moderator: Jonathan Galassi (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Participants: Bob Miller (Workman), Esther Newberg (ICM), Skip Prichard (Ingram), David Shanks (Penguin), Oren Telcher (ABA), Scott Turow…
On Sunday night, Lost concluded its six-year run with a nausea-inducing smorgasbord of meet-cutes and hackneyed dialogue, securing its place on the mantle occupied by…
In this 40 minute radio interview, novelist Joseph Wallace discusses Diamond Ruby and gets grilled on historical details.
Since there have been some inquiries, here’s the deal. Due to a number of ongoing projects that require my vital attention (along with this tricky…
Both of my parents did not exist. My mini-rebellion was to exist. There was no sperm, no egg. To this day, I survive by visiting…
Radio interview with crime writer Barry Gifford on the occasion of the Sailor and Lula omnibus edition.
The New York Times‘s Michiko Kakutani has rightly earned the wrath of fiction authors for her scathing reviews. But until now, nobody has thought to…
Back in 2005, I prepared a list of literary podcasts. Five years later, the original list has become outdated, with many of the previously listed…
A few days ago, a writer emailed me, hoping to be on The Bat Segundo Show. I responded quite politely, as I do with all…
The Almanac’s staff has long wondered why Cinco de Mayo doesn’t get the proper respect it deserves. You see, a little more than a century…
It has been suggested by at least one prominent mortician that the Almanac’s staff has been dead for the past week. Well, the moribund undertaker…
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