ROCKET MAN, the novel of the New American Dream

from News By Company It Had to Happen: The Shortsale Novel Posted for Sterling and Ross by vijay on April 1st 2011 and filled under Media & entertainment Rocket Man Novel brings to light the plight of the underwater homeowner and an American Dream in Reverse. New...

Love Wins In The Afterlife

from The Wall Street Journal What Happened to Heaven and Is Gandhi There? A new book stirs debate about the afterlife. By JOHN WILSON Something strange has happened in evangelical churches over the past generation. Not in every congregation, but in the main, sermons...

Rodrigo Corral to FSG

from MediaBistro’s UNBEIGE Rodrigo Corral Appointed Creative Director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux By Stephanie Murg on March 22, 2011 3:03 PM This just in: star graphic designer Rodrigo Corral has been appointed creative director of Farrar, Straus and...

King James Bible Near Death?

from The Huffington Post Will the King James Bible Survive? by Timothy Beal Author, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Bible’ Four hundred years since the King’s Printer published the first edition in 1611, the King James Version Bible continues to reign...

The 10 Best American Poems

from The Guardian UK The 10 best American poems The list could go on and on, but these are the poems that seem to me to have left the deepest mark on US literature – and me   Engraving of Walt Whitman by George C Cox. Image: Bettmann/Corbis   For whatever reason,...

SALON: James Frey Does Jesus

from Angry Salon James Frey does Jesus If the faux-memoirist thinks he’ll offend anyone by depicting Christ as a whoring drunk, he’ll be disappointed BY LAURA MILLER Salon Apparently James Frey has a tiny man in his head, like some kind of internalized...