by | May 10, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Vanity Fair The Author of How to Smoke Pot (Properly) Wants to Keep Weed Weird, Even When It’s Legal BY ANDREA WHITTLE Courtesy of Plume/Penguin Random House. Passionate pothead and 15-year veteran journalist David Bienenstock came up with the idea for his latest...
by | Apr 24, 2016 | Literary News
from The San Jose Mercury News Berkeley: Independent bookstores adapt to keep customers By Tom Lochner (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group) BERKELEY — Battered by global economic forces, rising commercial rents, online buying and other changes in consumer...
by | Apr 18, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New Yorker Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator BY ELIF BATUMAN Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. He published his first verses as...
by | Apr 4, 2016 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from the Richmond Times-Dispatch My Life: Imparting life lessons among 10th-grade teacher’s favorite tasks by Christina Grande CHRISTINA GRANDE When I was in third grade, I dressed up as a teacher for Halloween. My mom sprayed my jet-black hair gray (with...
by | Mar 30, 2016 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from Booktrade Eric Simonoff Winner Of Center For Fiction’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award ERIC SIMONOFF NAMED WINNER OF THE 2016 MAXWELL E. PERKINS AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF FICTION Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times March 29th, 2016,...
by | Mar 13, 2016 | Literary News, Projects
from hypable Danielle Paige discusses writing the way home in ‘Yellow Brick War’ (plus exclusive teaser!) BY MICHAL SCHICK Danielle Paige shares her thoughts on Wicked developments and new challenges in Yellow Brick War, and we have an exclusive teaser for Dorothy’s...
