by | Feb 27, 2008 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat in New York City Sunday night, poet Owen Sheers read from his first novel, Resistance, at KGB, pairing off with Richard Gwyn for one of the first events of Wales Week USA, an eight-day celebration of Welsh culture featuring, among...
by | Feb 27, 2008 | Literary News
snipped from Shelf Awareness In another publisher experiment making material available at no cost on the Internet, Random House began offering the entire text of Beautiful Children, Charles Bock’s debut novel, for free online as of 12:01 this morning until...
by | Feb 27, 2008 | Culture Music Art
By Dan Neil, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 27, 2008 Not to go all Pauline Kael on you, but “Bullitt” — the 1968 crime drama starring a Ford Mustang GT390 and some guy named Steve McQueen — is a fairly tedious bit of Aquarian cinema:...
by | Feb 26, 2008 | Culture Music Art
By JEFF LEEDS Published: February 26, 2008 LOS ANGELES — Mario Lavandeira, known to millions of fans as the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, has a habit of humiliating celebrities he dislikes by doodling explicit images across their photos on his Web site. But he has also...
by | Feb 25, 2008 | Literary News
March 2, 2008 Hardcover Fiction This Week Last Week Weeks On List 1 THE APPEAL, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $27.95.) Political and legal intrigue ensue when a Mississippi court decides against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste. 1 3 2 7TH...
