N+1=T

from the New York Observer N+1, Now in T-Shirt Form BY MATT HABER   via nplusonemag.com The Sartorial Situation Just in time for fall semester, n+1, the Brooklyn-based journal of prose combat, has a new line of T-shirts. (Hey, The New York Review of...

Americans Stink, No Nobels For You

from AP via Breitbart.com via Drudge Nobel literature head: US too insular to compete Sep 30 03:54 PM US/Eastern By MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press Writers STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week:...

Konstantin Pavlov Gone

from the SJ Mercury News Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov dies at 75 The Associated Press Article Launched: 09/29/2008 09:17:26 AM PDT   SOFIA, Bulgaria—Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria’s most prominent intellectuals with...

American Psycho On The Great White Way

from Variety ‘American Psycho’ heads to stage Musical adaptation in development  By GORDON COX   “American Psycho” has begun the development process and is aiming for Broadway. Legit version of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, about a...

Academia Killed David Foster Wallace

from Prospect Magazine America’s universities sheltered David Foster Wallace—and almost ruined his writing Julian Gough Like James Joyce, David Foster Wallace will be remembered—and, by some, fiercely loved—for a book which 99.999 per cent of the world’s...

Crumley and Milo and C.W. Gone

from the Los Angeles Times James Crumley dies at 68; author of gritty but poetic crime novels Bill Wittliff / Texas State University-San Marcos James Crumley, seen in 1989, wrote seven poetic but hard-boiled detective tales, including “The Last Good Kiss.” “There was...