LA Times Lauds James Frey’s Best Work

from The LA Times James Frey’s best work? January 6, 2010 | 11:20 am Smith Magazine’s six-word memoirs have been lodged in the literary firmament since the 2008 release of “Not Quite What I Was Planning,” a pocket-sized collection that became a...

Happy New Year, Dude

from The New York Times “[The Big Lebowski] doesn’t stand for what everybody thinks he should stand for, but he has his values. He just does it. He lives in a very disjointed society, but he’s gonna take things as they come, he’s gonna care about his friends, he’s...

More Six-Word Memoirs

from Robin Slick’s “In Her Own Write” blog Like, there’s this new book coming out, published by HarperCollins: Here’s the synopsis over at their website: “It All Changed in an Instant More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous &...

Book Donations Down this Year

from the San Jose Mercury News Fisher: Book donations way down this year By Patty Fisher Blame the economy. Or technology. Maybe the problem is that books, the kind made from trees, are losing their appeal in the age of electronic readers and video games. Whatever the...

Unbelievable – Editor & Publisher Gone

from Breitbart.com Editor & Publisher closing after 108 years Dec 10 01:14 PM US/Eastern NEW YORK (AP) – The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication. Editor & Publisher is being closed as its parent...

Suck On This, Reverend Rufus Griswold

from the San Jose Mercury News Poe’s first book goes for record $662,500 Associated Press NEW YORK — A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. The copy of “Tamerlane...