by | Jun 7, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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...
by | May 26, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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...
by | May 19, 2011 | Literary News
from Flavorwire 10 Novels That Will Disturb Even the Coldest of Hearts 12:30 pm Wednesday May 18, 2011 by Kathleen Massara The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood If you take away the epilogue, this novel tells an unbelievably miserable story of confinement and...
by | May 17, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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...
by | May 16, 2011 | Literary News
from The Wall Street Journal Arthur Phillips on Shakespeare, James Frey and Literary Legacy By Julie Steinberg Barbi Reed In his latest book, “The Tragedy of Arthur,” Brooklyn-based author Arthur Phillips mines Shakespeare’s words to consider the roles of originality...
by | May 15, 2011 | Literary News, Projects
from The Washington Post Michael Lindgren reviews James Frey’s ‘The Final Testament of the Holy Bible’ By Michael Lindgren What to make of this strange, ambitious, near-brilliant piece of ventriloquism from controversial memoirist James Frey? “The Final Testament of...
