While waiting patiently for Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue, I going to fondle my first edition copy of Wonder Boys.
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No new Donna Tartt novel this year
I’m not surprised. Little Brown does not have a new pub date either. Maybe she has been busy trying to convince her friend, Bret Easton Ellis, to get over his obsession with Fifty Shades of Grey.
Literary Doucebag-Fools Pantheon [sic]
Now, we all know that Bret Easton Ellis never uses Twitter to voice his opinions. Nope. But he has made an exception this morning. His target? David Foster Wallace. Ellis’ seven tweets are enough to make DFW’s ”literary doucebag-fools pantheon“ [sic] want to boil a live rabbit. While I am not a fan of DFW’s penchant for wearing bandannas like an 80s heavy metal star, Ellis’ tweets are a little on the harsh side. But then again, Ellis’ never really holds back, does he?
Maybe Incandenza and Bateman could sit down, sip some Wild Turkey, and work this whole thing out.
Writers wary of action by DOJ
(Michael) Connelly observes that the DOJ suit seems to be unbalanced. “I believe in fair play. So I feel that if the government is going to step in and put controls on how publishers act to ensure a competitive marketplace, then I hope the government will be just as vigilant in guarding this amazing, creative and important industry from being monopolized by one entity,” he says. ” Amazon spreads my work far and wide. You can’t beat that. I’m very grateful. But I don’t want a world where there are no bookstores or other venues for discovering my work or the work of any other writers.”
Harper Lee's sister gives glimpses of reclusive author's life
Not sure if the picture is of Harper Lee or her sister, Alice. But just look at that cigarette. Bad ass.
Lee Child and the "Long Game"
Nice guys don’t always finish last…
Just some boring novel
The Paris Review interviews Bret Easton Ellis in their Spring 2012 issue. On the controversial publication of American Psycho…
But when the book came out a few months later, the controversy stopped. The complaints, the protests, the screaming about what a monster Bret Easton Ellis supposedly was, it all stopped. People finally read the book, and they found out that it wasn’t four hundred pages of torture and mutilation and advocating the death of women. It’s just some boring novel.
A look at Jonathan Larson's Word Files
Doug Reside, Digital Curator of Performing Arts, Library for the Performing Arts at the New York Public Library, discusses his process for preserving Larson’s Word documents. Fascinating.
What NOT to Blog About
Great advice from Rachelle Gardner. Keeping this one on file…
Clean desk, clear head. Sometimes.
