David Rees confesses to his years at Bain: “I have been CEO … the entire time”
We’re getting to this kind of late, but there’s shocking news coming in via Twitter: right-wing cartoonist and artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees has confessed that he has served as CEO… Read more »
I Am the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or, Amazon is a knockoff factory
We’ve discussed the plagiarism issues Amazon allows to run rampant, but what about that other time-honored tradition of retail charlatanry: Designer knockoffs. It seems that there isn’t a single aspect… 11 / Read more »
The advantages for a writer of not being yourself
When a novelist is published for the first time their potential is limitless. They could be a bestseller, a literary sensation, a genius. But the moment the reviews have run… Read more »
Pulitzer-winning poet Louise Glück posts 5-star Yelp review of cleaning service
Or actually, to be more exact, her assistant posted the review for her. (Via The Poetry Foundation) Here it is: Assuming these are actually her words, Glück’s Yelp shares with her poetry… Read more »
David Rees, the world’s best and only artisanal pencil sharpener, came to Brooklyn on Monday, and gave the audience at Pete’s Candy Store an hour-long demonstration on the many techniques involved… 1 / Read more »
Poll: Should plagiarist Quentin Rowan write a book about his crimes?
Last week, Quentin Rowan, the disgraced serial plagiarist whose spy novel Assassin of Secrets proved to be massively plagiarized from dozens of other sources, wrote an essay at The Fix comparing… 4 / Read more »
The plagiarist speaks: Quentin Rowan, disgraced author, on his “obsession” and “death-wish”
The story of bookseller, poet, and plagiarist Quentin Rowan, who wrote the heavily plagiarized spy thriller Assassin of Secrets under the pseudonym Q.R. Markham, keeps getting stranger—after Rowan apologized for his… 1 / Read more »
VIDEO: He’s baaack! Ron Charles introduces new product line from Library of Congress
Just went you thought it was safe to go back into the, er, video viewing place, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles returns from a long video-making hiatus with a… Read more »
This story just keeps getting stranger and creepier by the day. According to this post by Robert Mackey on The Lede blog of the New York Times, in May Tom MacMaster… 6 / Read more »
Insane memoir fabulist Greg Mortenson is still up to no good, according to a new investigation by Newsweek’s Mike Giglio. On April 25th: [P]olice responded to a call from Mortenson’s… 12 / Read more »