by | Feb 29, 2008 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
by Ben Greenman @ the New Yorker The conservative author, publisher, and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr., has died at the age of eighty-two. This is not primarily a cultural story, and so shouldn’t really be on this blog, but it is in some small way a television...
by | Feb 29, 2008 | Literary News, Los Angeles
From the Los Angeles Times Dutton’s final page After more than 20 years, an author closes the book on his favorite bookstore. By T.C. Boyle In 1985, I was living in Woodland Hills with my wife and two young children, about to publish my fourth book of fiction...
by | Feb 28, 2008 | Literary News
2007 Award Winners in Fiction and Nonfiction Find the best new literary talent from 2007! Our distinguished panel of jurists have voted — and this year’s Discover Awards go to Joshua Ferris for his dazzling Then We Came to the End and to Kate Braestrup for...
by | Feb 28, 2008 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s FishbowlNY On Monday, Salman Rushdie headed to Pennsylvania for a speaking engagement at Widener University, located outside Philadelphia in the suburb of Chester The town of Chester decided to act with prudence when they found out Rushdie...
by | Feb 27, 2008 | Literary News
Mark Brown, arts correspondent Tuesday February 19, 2008 The Guardian A 21-year-old playwright is to join theatre history as one of the youngest writers to have a debut play performed in London’s West End. Photograph: Alex Macnaughton/Rex Features Polly...
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...
