I’ve just learned that Pitt’s graduation speaker, football player Dan Marino, closed his speech with something like, “in the wise words of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective: Let’s party!” How ever did I miss it?
Bookfox is handicapping the longlist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; its prize is more than $50,000 (35,000 Euros).
The Believer has announced its shortlist for the magazine’s 2007 Book Award. 10 books, most from independent presses, definitely interesting.
If the Festival of Books takes this advice to include a songwriter panel each year, I hereby volunteer to interview Elvis Costello in ’09.
A benefit auction for the Interstitial Arts Foundation: jewelry based on stories. Pretty!
This, not so much. Does it come in Tiffany-box blue?
