by | Jul 5, 2014 | Literary News
from The New York Times Jim Brosnan, Who Threw Literature a Curve, Dies at 84 By BRUCE WEBER Jim Brosnan in Chicago in 1964. “The Long Season,” his groundbreaking 1960 book, began as a diary. Credit Associated Press Jim Brosnan, who achieved modest baseball success as...
by | Jun 27, 2014 | Literary News, Mirth
from The NY Daily News Olivia Wilde responds to GQ film critic claiming she is too hot to portray a writer: ‘Kiss my smart a–’ BY KIRTHANA RAMISETTI Olivia Wilde has a witty response for someone who claimed she couldn’t have beauty and brains. The actress...
by | Jun 24, 2014 | Literary News
from The Financial Times Felix Dennis, the improbable magazine entrepreneur By Matthew Engel Felix Dennis, center, with James Anderson, left, and Richard Neville, editors of Oz, after being found guilty of corrupting public morals in 1971. (United Press International)...
by | Jun 15, 2014 | Literary News
from NY Times Poetry: Who Needs It? By WILLIAM LOGAN GAINESVILLE, Fla. — WE live in the age of grace and the age of futility, the age of speed and the age of dullness. The way we live now is not poetic. We live prose, we breathe prose, and we drink, alas, prose. There...
by | May 29, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from TIME Magazine Maya Angelou: A Hymn to Human Endurance Remembering a life of relentless creativity. When Maya Angelou was 16 she became not only the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco but the first woman conductor. By the time she was 40 she had also...
by | May 23, 2014 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from The Guardian Million dollar cover reveal for James Frey’s new Endgame series Newsflash: Readers around the world are given the chance to win a million dollars in gold by solving the clues of a super-puzzle! by Amber Segal Emblazoned… Endgame: The...
