by | Jan 9, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from The Guardian UK The best books of 2011 Alison Flood anticipates the literary delights of the coming year Alison Flood The Guardian, Monday 3 January 2011 Article history Author James Frey. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/ Antonio Olmos James Frey...
by | Jan 7, 2011 | Literary News
from The Chicago Tribune Closing of Borders on Mag Mile a sad chapter January 07, 2011|By Mary Schmich Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune By Saturday, Borders’ marquee Chicago store, at 830 N. Michigan Ave., will be closed for good. And — here’s what...
by | Jan 5, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The New York Times 2 Veterans Leave Village Voice By JEREMY W. PETERS What becomes of New York’s most formidable muckraking paper when two of its greatest muckrakers are gone? The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative weeklies, which enlivened political...
by | Jan 4, 2011 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The New York Times Publisher Tinkers With Twain By JULIE BOSMAN A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is missing something. Throughout the book — 219 times in all — the word “nigger” is replaced by “slave,” a substitution that was made by NewSouth...
by | Jan 3, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from The Los Angeles Times The first fruit of James Frey’s fiction factory James Frey achieved a strange fame with his bestselling memoir that proved not entirely true, “A Million Little Pieces.” After going on “Oprah” to promote his...
by | Dec 27, 2010 | Literary News
from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Next Page: The fabulism of ‘Travels With Charley’ Sorry, Charley: After criss-crossing America in the tracks of John Steinbeck’s ‘Travels With Charley,’ Bill Steigerwald came to a conclusion: The...
