Kevin Holtsberry, who is perhaps too apologetic in his debut, enters the podcasting fray and interviews Brock Clarke concerning this article and more.
Year / 2006
Hugo Winners
Locus reports this year’s winners. Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won the novel award. Connie Willis won for novella. David D. Levine’s “Tk’tk’tk” took the short story award. And John Scalzi nabbed the John W. Campbell Award.
Meanwhile, We Remain More or Less Silent About Our Embarrassing Addiction to Gnarls Barkley
Dallas Morning News Suffers Arts Coverage Atrocities
Dallas Blog: “Will Books go away? Books editor Charles Ealy and critic Jerome Weeks appear to be takers. Lifestyles writers Bryan Wooley, Bill Marvel, Michael Precker and Beatriz Terrazas are listed, among several others. Also investigative reporter Doug Swanson. From the business section, columnist Scott Burns apparently will now have more time to spend in his antique motor home. Artist Randy Bishop is on the goodbye list. Metro is losing some veteran reporters, including Bill Lodge and Tim Wyatt, among others.”
New OutKast Album DOA?
Salon: “Ever since OutKast came out of Atlanta 12 years ago, hip-hop’s beloved duo has been riding one long wave of critical adulation and popular acclaim, each album outselling the last, each album taking a legitimate artistic step forward, and each album confounding expectations. But now, with the tepid and unadventurous ‘Idlewild,’ Antwan ‘Big Boi’ Patton and Andre 3000 (né Benjamin) have done the last thing anyone expected: delivered their first dud.”
Say it ain’t so!