The Revenge Of Frey

from Publishers Weekly BEA 2014: Big Children’s Books at BEA By Diane Roback, Carolyn Juris, John Sellers, and Matia Burnett Endgame by James Frey is HarperCollins’s big YA title of the show; it releases in September with a one-million-copy first printing....

Jim Brosnan Gone

from The New York Times Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 By BRUCE WEBER Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. “The Long Season,” his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary. Credit Associated Press Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as...

Happy Independence Day

from artnet Giacomo Balla, Fireworks (sketch) (1915).Photo: Wikipedia Commons.   [ click to view more fine fireworks at artnet.com ]

Castaneda Confirmed

from The Washington Post Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,” study finds By Rachel Feltman A man displays dried mushrooms. Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage Psychedelic mushrooms can do more than make you see the world in kaleidoscope. Research suggests...