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…
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The only thing better than reading about a party you missed
… is reading about a BAD party you missed. Thank you, James Marcus. Thank you, Atlantic, for not sending me an invite. Picture this: as you enter the auditorium at…
present and accounted for
Stewart O’Nan is coming to Pitt in a couple of weeks; today he’s interviewed at the NBCC blog. Find out what Last Night at the Lobster has in common with…
I’m catching up and now you are too
On the gossip from the Quill Awards. The hypothetical longlist for the Short Story Prize. Bat Segundo podcasts with Oliver Sacks, Richard Russo and … James Lipton? Mona Gonzales, about…
Hot Metal Bridge-ing
Hello! How are you? Am I speaking too loud?! Do I seem a little awkward? My apologies. It’s just – I haven’t seen people in a while. I’ve been putting…
Various and sundries
Katy tutors student athletes at Pitt, and can make ’em laugh hard enough to fall out of a chair. Is the thing we call “writing process” any more than keeping…
Dave Eggers in Pittsburgh & the LA Times and more
Eggers is the youngest ever Heinz Award winner, and he’s giving all $250,000 of it to the 826 nonprofits. Read all about it in the Los Angeles Times; I reported…
Never too late
La Bloga gets with Junot Diaz, on The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, 10 years in the writing: Books are not people. They are never late to the party….
Quick quick quick
How far do you have to go to get to the International Festival of Authors? Oh, it’s in Canada. I can get to Canada, someday. If you must go to…
Reading is fun(damental)
Richard Rayner reviews the Paris Review Interviews II in the LA Times. I wish I could find the promo excerpts I got at BEA — Faulkner was gloriously cranky. Well,…
