Catching JG Ballard, vicariously
With this here internet, I can get the scoop on this JG Ballard appearance, uh, somewhere (I think in the UK?). While the man is, apparently, old, fat and deaf,…
Category Archives: writers
Must be nice for them
Say you want to go to an artist’s colony to get some quiet time to work. There’s a long list, topped by the prestigious Yaddo and MacDowell colonies, which are…
Hey good lookin’
This week Ron Hogan adds a little levity to the ongoing hotties of publishing debate with a Writer’s Digest piece called Does This Book Jacket Make Me Look Fat? Technically,…
David Foster Wallace + Scott Simon = just plain odd
If you missed the NPR segment this morning with Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace talking to Scott "Mr. Poignant" Simon about tennis star Roger Federer, do check it out…
At (summer) home with Art Buchwald
He’s had a column in the Washington Post for longer than I can remember. He’s 80. He was a plaintiff in what was perhaps the most high-profile writer vs. Hollywood…
Bukowski, 1976
Video interview: "The job I have, writing, makes it easy to be an alcoholic. I get up when I want to, I write when I want to. I write about…
Dorothy Allison on Bastard Out of Carolina
"I wanted to … put on the page a memorial to the family that I loved. A huge, violent, working-class family that had problems with liquor and poverty and generally…
He, the jury
Yes, that’s Mickey Spillane, who died yesterday at age 88. And yes, that’s Karen Black, ubiquitous ’70s film actress, now Scientologist. A quick imdb search indicates they never worked on…
Hey, SA!
LA poet SA Griffin gets his due with the cover story of LA Alternative this week. Well, it would be nice if it were the NY Times Magazine instead, but…
At home with Donald Hall
The New York Times’ Home section got all breathy this week over Donald Hall’s New Hampshire farmhouse. Generally, people contact experts from https://onestopselfstorage.com/dayton-ohio/ to avail the best storage services.With that…
