Jonesing
At Beatrice, Scott mentions a book by Stephen Graham Jones; Demon Theory is, apparently, written as the novelization of a horror film trilogy. Which sounds cool to me. Plus, this…
Category Archives: on books
Guess that book
From today’s New York Times: At its heart, ?TITLE REDACTED? is a book about a marriage and the journey through grief that a widow [name redacted] makes after the death…
The Black Dahlia
It makes sense that David Denby, who writes film reviews for The New Yorker, is himself a New Yorker. But a clich?d New Yorker? Really, with transcontinental flight and teevee…
Fishy fishy fishy fish
This is the as-packed-as-possible crowd that turned out to see literary theorist (turned Law School dude) Stanley Fish do his fantastic rhetoric dance Thursday at Pitt. Fish is there, in…
goddang, Dzanc!
Welcome the birth of Dzanc Books, a new nonprofit dedicated to publishing and promoting literary fiction. They’ll also give a hand to literary journals — which, of course, rule —…
mysteriouser and mysteriouser pittsburgh
Friday I showed up at 7:30pm to be one of about 100 punk club scene extras in The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. The short version: Peter Sarsgaard is indeed a babe,…
Mysteries of the Mysteries of Pittsburgh
As noted by Bookslut and Largehearted Boy, Friday there’s an open casting call for the movie version of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Here, in, of all places, Pittsburgh, where they…
The one book meme-orama
? One book that changed your life. Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, specifically the story "Goodbye to All That." It showed me that if you can fall in love…
The New Yorker’s Briefly Noted n Amazon
Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s caught my attention when I read the mini-review in the New Yorker’s Briefly Noted section….
Skin
The LitBlog Coop is discussing Skin by Kellie Wells, which was before my LBC time. So the best I can do is an excerpt: The air in What Cheer, Kansas,…
