Two for Tuesday: This column is embargoed until today
Topics discussed: last week’s column, next week’s column, the week after next week’s column, infinite recursiveness, Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Gawker, book reviews, embargoes, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump,… Read more »
Play it if it pays: Joan Didion documentary crowdfunded on Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a powerful website, and its awesome crowdfunding power has, on occasion, been deployed toward some pretty odd ends. But for every Missy Elliott-themed tracksuit and Ron Paul-themed video game… Read more »
Kakutani by the numbers
The New York Times has just published the latest review by staff book reviewer Michiko Kakutani — in this instance of Norman Rush’s new novel Subtle Bodies. To say that… Read more »
The future of novel-writing, as seen in the past
Get ready for a sort of rarity: The big publishing machine in New York doing what it usually does — a mega-rollout featuring the usual power-broker suspects — except this… Read more »
Overused Words From Our Favorite Authors – Slideshow
A few years back, Bob Harris at The New York Times presented the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing, with “compelling” being one of the Serious Offenders of the Written Word, and Lake Superior State University… 1 / Read more »