Seductively Dangerous

from The Wall Street Journal Seductively Dangerous Without Thomas De Quincey there would have been no James Frey By LEE SANDLIN William Hazlitt (1778-1830) once observed that the arts don’t make progress the way that the sciences do. Instead, they tend to...

God Speaks

from CNN.com ‘God’ speaks on upcoming memoir According to Entertainment Weekly, the reason God inked a recent book deal with Simon & Schuster is because he’s “tired of being misinterpreted.” The higher power recently spoke with EW about his upcoming...

“Four years after Oprah attack…”

from The Guardian UK James Frey forced to defend literary ethics, four years after Oprah attack Following Oprah reprimand over first book, the controversial US writer is now accused of exploitation for group writing project Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk,...

Dead End Follies’ Top 10 Literary Villains

from Dead End Follies Top 10 Best Literary Villains 1-Palmer Eldritch from Philip K. Dick’s Three Stigmatas Of Palmer Eldritch: The achievement of Palmer Eldritch as a villain is to get under your skin and make you do nightmares, even if the story around him is...