Stephenson and Jonathan Strange not enough? Why not try Paul Anderson’s Hunger’s Brides? It’s 1,376 pages long (via Booksquare)
Author / DrMabuse
Bush Answers Everyday Questions
LANDLORD: “Why didn’t I get the rent check?”
BUSH: “It’s hard work.”
LAURA BUSH: “You missed our dinner date.”
BUSH:: “It’s hard work. You’re sending mixed messages.”
WAITER: “Here’s the check, sir.”
BUSH: “The thing I don’t get is how my bill remains so inconsistent.”
UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN: “I’ve been unable to get a job for eighteen months.”
BUSH: “It’s hard work. I make difficult decisions every day. But you’re in my heart. But you attacked first.”
[UPDATE: B has the goods on last night’s smackdown.]
[UPDATE 2: Number of times Bush said “hard work” during the debate: 11.]
And She’s Back in Heat
As widely reported, Bitch Novelist will fuck your shit up.
Secret Agent
No mention of SPECTRE’s presence within slush piles or the ridiculous signing demands of Elder Statesmen (accompanied by their egos), but Secret Agent has launched over at Maud’s. And it’s good stuff. We just hope the Agent will squirt Norman Mailer in the eye with one of Q’s gadgets just before his appearance on Gilmore Girls.
Material Girls, Zola’s Game Theory, Tipping Points
- Edinburgh hopes to add a walking tour to the Royal Mile.
- Three refurbished Truman Capote volumes have been released in time for Capote’s 80th birthday.
- Unemployed doctoral students may want to consider analyzing Zola. Apparently, it ties into current French politics.
- David Halberstam sinks his teeth into Rathergate.
- Neal Stephenson has shaved his head. And apparently his audience has grown older.
- Andrea Dworkin has written a followup book about the infamous drug-rape.
- The new stamps for 2005: Greta Garbo (check), Henry Fonda (check), The Muppets (check), Richard Fenyman (double check), Arthur Ashe (check) and *sigh* Ronald Reagan.
- Newsday talks with Philip Roth. The big surprise? Apparently, tenderness.
- Richard B. Wright: a literary career forged on endless awards?
- Nympho Bride: Ashcroft’s idea of terrorism.
- The New Yorker still has faith in Tipping Point Segmentation technology. What’s Gladwell’s cut?
- Madonna studying literature at Oxford?