Buck Henry Gone

from DEADLINE Remembering Buck Henry: Al Franken, Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, Albert Brooks Join In Praise For Comedy Legend By Bruce Haring UPDATE, with additional reactions Genius, a giant, legendary – those are just some of the words that writers strained to come...

Liz Wurtzel Gone

from CNN Elizabeth Wurtzel, a controversial writer whose work will live on Opinion by Holly Thomas Elizabeth Wurtzel was a pioneer of the confessional memoir. The opposite of controversial is irrelevant. So believed Elizabeth Wurtzel, who was herself controversial and...

Elsie Goes Bankrupt

from Bloomberg via MSN Borden becomes second big US milk producer to file for bankruptcy by Jeremy Hill Borden Dairy Co. filed for bankruptcy, becoming the second major U.S. milk seller to do so in two months as competitive pressures, declining consumption and falling...

Baldessari Gone

from The LA Times John Baldessari, radically influential Conceptual artist, dies at 88 By SUZANNE MUCHNIC, DORANY PINEDA, DEBORAH VANKIN John Baldessari likened his task to that of writers of detective fiction or poetry who build an “architecture of...

First Illustrated Book Found

from The Observer The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt By Helen Holmes Detail from one of the coffins of Gua, chief physician of Djehutyhotep, governor of Bersha. The paintings recall drawings from the Book of Two Ways. Werner...