Dogs In Fiction

from The Guardian UK Dogs in fiction – quiz Can you sniff out the right answers in our jaw-gnashingly difficult canine quiz? Test your knowledge of tails in tales and find out if you’re top dog in the pack [ click to take the full quiz at The Guardian...

Vingt-et-un with Glenn O’Brien

from Exhibition A GLENN O’BRIEN Glenn O’Brien playing blackjack with fellow author James Frey Glenn O’Brien is the author of “How to Be A Man” and for years wrote a great column at ArtForum called “Like Art.” He was previously the editorial director at...

The Believing Brain

from NPR The Believing Brain: From Ghosts To Gods To Politics And Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs And Reinforce Them As Truths By Michael Shermer, hardcover, 400 pages, Times Books, list price: $28 “Beliefs come first, explanations for beliefs...

Digital Killed The Physical Book

from The American Magazine The End of the Book? By John Steele Gordon Saturday, May 21, 2011 The book business will go through a transformation in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seen since Johannes Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type...

BIG THINK: “The Million Little Pieces” controversy with Oprah “really freed me to be as radical as I want, to break every rule I want, and to not have to care what other people thought.”

from BIG THINK A MILLION LITTLE PIECES REVISITED: CAN THE TRUTH EVER SET JAMES FREY FREE? James Frey tells Big Think that “The Million Little Pieces” controversy with Oprah “really freed me to be as radical as I want, to break every rule I want, and...