by | Oct 26, 2011 | Literary News
from USA Today Profanity is making a splash in book titles By Deirdre Donahue Publishing used to be a gentleman’s profession. But the trend of using profanity in titles — already common in pop songs and even on Broadway — has now spread to books. In the past...
by | Oct 22, 2011 | Literary News, Mirth
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by | Oct 17, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Esquire “There Is No Truth,” He Said. The future of the written word, and the liberation of James Frey. With space aliens. By John H. Richardson Illustrations by Nathan Fox Published in the November 2011 issue Things start to get...
by | Oct 2, 2011 | Literary News, Projects
from The Globe and Mail MY BOOKS, MY PLACE Daniel MacIvor, the distracted reader DANIEL MACIVOR From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Sep. 30, 2011 4:30PM EDT I’ve never been a curl-up-in-a-quiet-place-with-a-good-book kind of person. Mostly, I like...
by | Sep 28, 2011 | Literary News
from LISTVERSE 10 Refute “Refute” means to “disprove with evidence” and yet it’s commonly used, even by professional writers, to mean “rebut” which carries a similar meaning but isn’t quite so strong, as it can also mean “argue against.” The example here (“Simon...
by | Sep 21, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from BOOKTRYST The $175,000 Dust Jacket Comes to Auction by Stephen J. Gertz Sotheby’s Oct. 10, 2011. Est. $150,000-$180,000. The incredibly rare and desirable dust jacket to the first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is coming to auction...
