66 degrees. thank you, global warming.
Record-breaking heatwave here in Pittsburgh. It was 66 yesterday! Woohoo! Another record-breaker: AWP sold out. While last year I simply walked in and paid at the door, this year the…
Record-breaking heatwave here in Pittsburgh. It was 66 yesterday! Woohoo! Another record-breaker: AWP sold out. While last year I simply walked in and paid at the door, this year the…
David Kipen has Twain on the brain: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 5 Chapters kicks off with…
The coolest thing I’ve read all day: Mark Sarvas’s first novel is funny and sad, rueful, wised-up and curiously moving. A remarkable debut. – John Banville, winner of the Man…
Hankering for the encyclopedia of country music or a very fine atlas? Oxford University Press is on sale for xmas at Amazon. Mark’s in favor of the NBCC best recommended…
Not only do I support the striking Hollywood writers, I also support the LAist’s amazing coverage of the strike and all its odd side stories. They’ve got personal stories and…
That’s the view from my office this morning. Snow. Just a flurry, but snow nonetheless. If you have concerns about the film adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera,…
Bloggers barnstorm the National Book Awards: Jason Boog with video, Ed with podcasts & blogging, even Sarah on Twitter. Joan Didion on Norman Mailer: “There was someone who really truly…
Christopher Sorrentino reviews Steve Erickson’s Zeroville for the LA Times. Will Zeroville make the best-of-07 lists? Not PW’s, which published its long, pretty good list on Nov. 5. Premature, or…
Monday: Stewart O’Nan reads in the evening at Pitt, in the 5th floor room where we have workshop, featuring arching gothic windows and the occasional wintry breeze. Afterwards a few…
Stewart O’Nan is coming to Pitt in a couple of weeks; today he’s interviewed at the NBCC blog. Find out what Last Night at the Lobster has in common with…