“The power of an ellipsis…”

from The Times Literary Supplement Byron burning CORIN THROSBY  A sketch from The Wonderful History of Lord Byron & His Dog by E. B. Pigot, 1807 © Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin Byron knew, more than any author before him, the power of...

Franzen Upchuck

from The Observer Why I Almost Committed Suicide Watching Jonathan Franzen on Jeopardy A three-time Jeopardy champ nearly loses it seeing a slightly more famous writer at the game-show podium Neal Pollack I’m a Jeopardy! champion. I won three games in September of...

The Proper Pot-smoker

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...

Berkeley Bookstores Surviving

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...