Video excuse: Stewart Lee signs book deal with Faber
Dennis Johnson
The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »
The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »
Along with the flowers and candles placed at the sites of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, mourners are also leaving copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Bookstores are moving lots of… Read more »
In April, Threadbare Theatre Workshop staged a reading of “or, The Whale” at WORD Bookstore. The Greenpoint-based theater group is now planning a fully staged version of Herman Melville’s classic… Read more »
She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge, She studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College, That’s where I… Caught her eye. So begins Pulp’s hit song ‘Common People’,… Read more »
To celebrate National Library Week last week (April 13-18), the Tokeka and Shawnee County Public Library created a parody video of Taylor Swift’s hit song “Shake it Off.” The librarians’… Read more »
Remember when writers wrote books in private? Of course you do! Because it was happening as recently as Wednesday. But things took a turn for the worst yesterday, when Hachette… Read more »
In what is certain to be the biggest controversy to rock the book world this year, Lynne Truss’s new novel Cat Out Of Hell was recently slammed by the “Cat’s Rights”… Read more »
It’s been nearly fifty years since Star Trek first aired on NBC, but Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock—the cool, cerebral, half-human, half-Vulcan officer aboard the starship Enterprise—has remained one of the… Read more »
Let’s begin with two remarks by visual artist, soil salinizer, and hip-hop star Olafur Eliasson. First, his endorsement of Jonathan Safran Foer’s non-novel Tree of Codes: Jonathan Safran Foer, [sic, because… Read more »
Here’s an animated conversation between Maya Angelou and Studs Terkel, on stories told to her by con men when she was young. The interview took place in the 1970s, and… Read more »