USC has pulled the plug on the excellent Online Journalism Review (via). Nice going, alma mater. (bad)
Cecil Castellucci wins the 2007 Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer, a Very Big Deal for comics in Canada. (good!)
Master monster maker Stan Winston has died. (bad)
On Jacket Copy, David Ulin and Richard Rayner are talking about Denis Johnson’s new serialized noir — me too! (good!) — come on, jump in.
Oh, I almost forgot: Michael Dirda has no truck with cute young creative literary critics.
