March 23, 2015

(Note: Spoilers for the HBO miniseries The Jinx follow.) Robert Durst’s first wife, Kathleen, disappeared. Decades later, his good friend Susan Berman was murdered in Los Angeles. Soon after, in Galveston,… 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

Clean Reader turns your e-reader into a vulgarity free zone

Julia Fleischaker

Do you feel like there’s just too much flipping swearing in literature? Do you think most books would benefit from fewer darn curse words? Well, you’re in luck. The Clean… Read more »

Dr. Seuss museum coming to the author’s hometown

Nick Davies

Dr. Seuss’s hometown of Springfield, MA is going to get a museum in the author’s honor soon. Greg Cook writes for The ARTery, the arts blog of Boston NPR station… Read more »

The Los Angeles Review of Books launches ambitous new channel, The Offing

Taylor Sperry

Last week, the Los Angeles Review of Books launched the Offing, “an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media.” The Offing joins Avidly… Read more »

Melville House Books

Robert Durst can’t stop writing

Liam O'Brien