On The Pitch

from the New York Times Another Side of Kerouac: The Dharma Bum as Sports Nut New York Public Library, Berg Collection, Jack Kerouac Archive Jack Kerouac’s fantasy baseball team cards, circa 1953-56. More Photos > By CHARLES McGRATH Published: May 15, 2009 Almost...

A Jazz Memoir in Verse

from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn’t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it’s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the...

Dracula In Your Inbox

from the Dracula Feed at Blogspot Dracula Begins Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day...

Marilyn French Gone

from The LA Times Marilyn French dies at 79; author of feminist classic ‘The Women’s Room’ The 1977 novel, which captured the frustration and fury of a generation of women fed up with society’s traditional conceptions of their role, sold 20...