Nicholson Baker resurfaces to offer his thoughts on David Michaelis’s Schulz biography. (via Jenny D)

This week, the blog Romancing the Tome celebrates its third anniversary. The dynamic duo behind this blog asking me to expostulate on literary adaptations and an exemplar of my “seemingly fearless” character can be found here. Likewise, I was asked by Reese Kwon to put in my two bits on James Wood for a lengthy article called “What Would Wood Think?”

I want to clarify something about the pledge drive, because I feel that it’s important. It hasn’t come up yet, but, if you are an author or a publisher who wishes to submit to the fund, please know that if I decide to interview you or review your book, I will pay you back your money if we end up setting up an interview. I’m doing this so that I can maintain the same journalistic integrity that I do for all of the interviews, and I do not wish for there to be a conflict of interest, or the perception of such.

If you are interested in reading an article that will have you clamoring for one cold shower, followed by three more, followed by a week-long regimen of healthy food and abstaining from alcohol, and followed then by some dim yet vociferous hope for a legion of Jimmy Breslins to infiltrate the New York media world, then this longass article is for you. It’s amazing that these folks are so miserable that they would offer such revealing quotes — oh, more revealing than they know! — to a journalist.