by | Sep 14, 2010 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from Slate.com Roger Clemens, James Frey, and the Thrill of Watching the Overly Ambitious Fall By Laura Kipnis Which is worse: lying to Congress or lying to Oprah? When the news broke that former MLB star Roger Clemens was being indicted for perjury about his alleged...
by | Sep 10, 2010 | Literary News
from The New York Times Even Poetry Is Undergoing Cutbacks By PETER APPLEBOME KATONAH, N.Y. It’s not clear what’s more unlikely — that for 43 years most of the nation’s best-known poets have come to the modest Katonah Library for a poetry series begun by a former Mad...
by | Sep 8, 2010 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Jimi Hendrix and His Science Fiction Bookshelf By Jason Boog on Sep 08, 2010 02:23 PM Most people don’t remember anymore, but rock legend Jimi Hendrix was a science fiction book junkie. We caught up with one the...
by | Sep 6, 2010 | Literary News
from The Wall Street Journal William Gibson On the Future of Publishing: Made to Order Books By Steven Kurutz It’s no surprise that William Gibson is a prolific user of Twitter. The author of science-fiction classics like “Neuromancer” and “Spook Country” has long...
by | Aug 19, 2010 | Literary News, Los Angeles
from LA Weekly Selling the Treasures of Book Soup’s Late Owner By Gendy Alimurung Thursday, Aug 19 2010 Much as he might have wanted to, when Book Soup owner Glenn Goldman died of pancreatic cancer last year, he couldn’t take his impressive 20th-century...
by | Aug 12, 2010 | Literary News, Projects
from the New York Times [ click to read at NYTimes.com ]
