Tag Archives: litblogs

Emily Gould ankles Galleycat

Emily Gould, onetime Gawker turned publishing industry blogger, has left Galleycat. Her tenure at the site began two months and six days ago. Emily Gould’s first Galleycat post; her last…

From Barthelme to Vanderbilt

Maud’s giving away Barthelme! With delicious Pynchon intro, even. I’m not the only one who had a visit from Maryann Burk Carver. At the NEA’s Big Read blog, David Kipen…

can you tell I’m at my office hours?

The National Book Critics Circle has announced its awards finalists. The most entertaining read is Lizze Skurnick’s liveblogging. Most interesting/unsurprising news of the nominees? Joyce Carol Oates is up for…

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…

To the 2 to the 0 to the 0 to the 8

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…

And the Mailer-less book world turns

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…