- Adam Bellow: “If I had learned one thing from my historical study of nepotism (yes, that was the subject of my book), it’s that a boy needs many fathers in his journey to manhood.” The problem with such a generalization is that when one considers daddy bears, fatherhood and nepotism take on more troubling definitions.
- Bob Hoover talks with Pete Hamill.
- The Bookseller reports that a new Stephen King novella will be in the July issue of Esquire. Even if it is just Stephen King, I must applaud Esquire‘s willingness to devote 23 pages of its magazine to fiction.
- Is Andrew Cockburn’s Rumsfeld hatchet job compelling enough to stand above its own clearly demarcated vitriol?
- Weiner on Paper Cuts: “I can’t wait. Seriously, I can’t. I bet my husband it’ll be less than five days before the blog mentions perennial Times boycrush Gary Shteyngart. If I win, I get a water ice.”
- Is BEA a waste of money for the aspiring author? (via Slushpile)
- Andrew O’Hagan on Don DeLillo.
- What next? Will they set up journalistic export processing zones? (via Ron Silliman)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune offers a summer reading roundup.
- A Stephen Dixon profile. (via Dale Keiger)
- Are lost pants worth $65 million? I mean, if it’s really another predictable series of dick wars (from a judge, no less), I’m wondering how many penis implants you could get for that price. (via Henry Kisnor)
- Dan Chiasson on Les Murray’s poetry.
- Litminds interviews Jessica Stockton.
- Jenny D points to another Jenny D’s take on Chabon.
- Slate’s Michelle Tsai looks (too briefly) into how a dirty word gets dirty. (via Literary Gas)
- RIP Ousmane Sembene. (via Laila)
- Is Jonathan Lethem “an overeager college student?”
- It appears that the New York Times has hired TvNewser blogger Brian Stelter as a media reporter.
- For those thinking of McSweeney’s financial woes, Matthew Tiffany offers an independent presses harangue.
- Oh no.
- There are some troubling comics “obscenity” battles going down at the border. (via Bookninja)
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“Is BEA a waste of money for the aspiring author? ”
Yeah, pretty much. I was only there because my agent had a pass for me. I really had no intention of setting foot inside that terrarium known as the Javits. And until a publisher makes it worth my time, I’m sticking with the fan and writers conferences.
ok, that nyt blog has taught us the creepy fact that george saunders listens to the fugees. paper cuts, indeed.