by | Jul 22, 2013 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from Strange Reaction James Frey Interview About a decade back I heard about a book called A Million Little Pieces. Everybody seemed to be talking about it everywhere I went. Finally a year after it came out I picked up a copy and started reading it while I was...
by | Jul 13, 2013 | Literary News, Mirth
from BuzzFeed Who Said It: Pablo Neruda Or Taylor Swift? It’s Pablo Neruda’s 109th birthday today! Let’s see how the love poet of yore stacks up against our beloved songstress of modern romance. by Matt Ortile [ click to play Pablo v. Taylor at BuzzFeed...
by | Jul 10, 2013 | Literary News
from The West Australian Fire damages landmark Paris mansion By Marion Thibaut, AFP A fire has damaged the landmark 17th-century Hotel Lambert in Paris. The Hotel Lambert mansion in central Paris, a 17th-century architectural jewel with a rich history, was damaged in...
by | Jun 12, 2013 | Literary News, Weirdness
from Shelf Awareness It’s 1984 All Over Again: Orwell’s Book Sales Spike Daily disclosures about America’s surveillance apparatus have sparked renewed interest in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Wall Street Journal reported that...
by | Jun 5, 2013 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from big think On Writing: Henry Miller Made Me Do It by JAMES FREY I became a writer after I read Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller when I was 22. I couldn’t believe somebody wrote that book. I couldn’t believe somebody said what he said and lived how he lived and...
by | Jun 2, 2013 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from IAmNumberFourFans.com Fall of Five Character Prophecies: Part I This week on the official I AM NUMBER FOUR Facebook page, we revealed a few sneak peeks at the fate of some of our favorite characters in THE FALL OF FIVE. Here’s a roundup of the first three posts,...