by | Jul 10, 2010 | Literary News
from The New York Times Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant By LARRY ROHTER Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography,...
by | Jul 7, 2010 | Literary News
Just What Can’t Betty White Do? Can social media be focused to achieve a specific goal? It’s a question a Canadian author Catherine McKenzie asked herself when she saw the successful Facebook campaign to get Betty White to host Saturday Night Live. McKenzie’s goal is...
by | Jul 3, 2010 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
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by | Jun 20, 2010 | Literary News, Mirth
from AP via Google News Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial (AP) LONDON — A flashy British book dealer accused of stealing a rare first edition of Shakespeare’s plays appeared for trial Wednesday in a silver limousine, sporting a Panama hat and...
by | Jun 16, 2010 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from The Nervous Breakdown Three Older Women Stand in Line to Yell at the Author James Frey when Malcolm-Jamal Warner Stops By with a Two-Liter of Cherry Coke Under his Arm by GREG BOOSE CHICAGO, IL 14 June 2010 Helen: I’m really going to let him have it....
by | May 28, 2010 | Literary News
from The Independent After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now By Guy Adams in Los Angeles Exactly a century...
