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Through the Nooky Glass
A behind-the-scenes doc of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls. (via Jeff VanderMeer)
Rupert Thomson Appearances in Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle
As Megan notes, New York isn’t the only East Coast venue for Rupert Thomson . He’ll also be appearing at the Harvard Book Store in Boston the night before — on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 7:00 PM. At my old stomping grounds in the Bay Area, Thomson will also be appearing at Black Oak Books on August 13, 2007. There are also two appearances planned in the Seattle area.
Do You Care That by Continuing to Ask Rude Bullshit Questions of Your Subjects, You Are a Joke of a Journalist Who Won’t Even Merit an Honorary Mention at the Annual Banquet of the Staten Island “We Read Newspapers” Society?
Deborah Solomon to Mary Gordon: “Do you care that you’ve never won a Pulitzer Prize or, for that matter, the Nobel Prize in Literature?”
This Sunday’s LATBR
There’s lots of good stuff in this week’s Los Angeles Times Book Review, including Good Man Park on Spook Country, which he compares to William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, a full-fledged geek-centric mystery column from Sarah, and Emily Barton on Mata Hari.
Oh, and there’s some other Ed you might know reviewing Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys.