That’s the way to white trash it, baby
The brilliant Jason Toney puts up "officially the whitest thing I’ve ever posted" on his blog, Negro Please, and it is so excellent I’m teary-eyed. Kelly Clarkson clambers on stage…
Category Archives: online
Thursday whirl
The Man Booker longlist gets a lovely overview and thorough follow-up from Max. Meanwhile, the prize has thrown discussion boards online, where a popular topic is Banville Is God –…
Friday linkage
Beware the indie rock tastemaker (via Stereogum) Punk Kansas? This and more are promised in the Bat Segundo podcast interview with author Kellie Wells Blogging.la counts down the top 25…
one sentence roundup
Alan DeNiro: Leaving aside the quality of American Vertigo itself, having Garrison Keillor review Bernard-Henri Levy is like having a complete tool review a French philosopher. – Thomas Pynchon: Spanning…
Thursday: Atlantic, feel-y and the Beatles
The Atlantic’s fiction issue is out, including stories by Richard Russo, Dominick Smith, Cynthia Ozick , Laura Groff, Tim Gautreaux and Ada Udechukwu. But if you’re not a subscriber,…
How to interview Nan Talese
NY Brain Terrain interviews Nan Talese. She talks about her editing career and about the creative process of editing. She even admits to reading The Devil Wears Prada. But the…
One Sentence Roundup
"The Bat Segundo Show has been named as a Yahoo Pick! " – Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant [congrats, Ed!] "Infinite Jest is not quite the light read that…
book marketing, humor-style, bloggy-style
Writer Paul Davidson has a book coming out on May 4. Paul is one of those people who is so funny when you talk to them, you wonder if you…
April fool’s at the Return of the Reluctant
My favorite post of the day: James Frey Reveals That He Is JT LeroyAt a press conference this morning, James Frey revealed to the world that he is, in fact,…
