Literature of the “departure lounge”
Clive James knows he doesn’t have much time left to write. He was diagnosed with leukemia and emphysema in 2010, but he says he’s feeling pretty optimistic about it, even… Read more »
Benjamin Schwarz out at The Atlantic
In a little-reported move, Benjamin Schwarz has left The Atlantic. Since 2000, Schwarz has edited the Atlantic’s books and ideas section, which published reviews and essays by Christopher Hitchens, B.R. Myers, Caitlin Flanagan, Perry… Read more »
Boring the interns
Man, I can’t wait until I’m old like Michael Kinsley and can write pieces about “the way things were,” back when you occasionally had to stand close to a window… Read more »
Indie publisher James Atlas is indie no longer, or, Now Nancy Pearl has a friend!
Biographer and editor James Atlas, who has acquired books for HarperCollins, Penguin, and WW Norton and later published an independent list at Atlas & Co., has teamed up with Amazon… Read more »
Just released: The North Korea book Christopher Hitchens called “electrifying” and “brilliant”
The headline for the New York Times report on the death of Kim Jung-Il — “Kim Jong-il, North Korean Dictator, Dies Suddenly” — reminds me of two things. One is… Read more »