October 18, 2013

Yesterday in Britain Morrissey joined the literary canon as his autobiography, Autobiography, was published as a Penguin Classic. Some seemed to mock this move, taunting the writer and his book for… Read more »

Authors

Protesting sexism, comic book artists pull out of running for Angoulême Grand Prix — Liam O'Brien
20th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest features fan-designed cover — Kait Howard
Amazon picks up The Last Tycoon adaptation, casts Kelsey Grammer in lead — Liam O'Brien
Castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga denies eating his companion — Taylor Sperry

“I started working there for the books”

Dustin Kurtz

Matthew Lawrence is an author, co-editor of Headmaster magazine, organizer of marathon readings of Casanova and a former bookseller. He is also a perhaps-friend-but-maybe-more-accurately-acquaintance of mine. His latest project is… Read more »

Mental Floss scores an interview with reclusive Calvin and Hobbes creator

Julia Fleischaker

Mental Floss thrilled a generation of nostalgics when they announced today an interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in their December issue. The creator of a supremely popular… Read more »

Atlas Hugged

Kirsten Reach

As Wonkette reported last January, and Angela Chen of the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, eligible Objectivists no longer need to waste time in bars buying drinks for other… Read more »

Foreign Language Hopscotch

Sal Robinson

As a habitual conceiver of overly ambitious, but really exciting-sounding projects, one of the ones I’ve been most disappointed in never quite getting around to was the project to learn… Read more »

Pizza expert searches for box that is said to have prevented government shutdown

Claire Kelley

Scott Wiener, author of Viva la Pizza!: The Art of the Pizza Box, which will be published by Melville House next month, was intrigued when he saw the New York… Read more »

Melville House Books

Morrissey joins the Classics

Zeljka Marosevic