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From the inbox: Brookline Booksmith is pleased to announce that broadcasting legend Barbara Walters will be appearing at your favorite local independent bookstore on Thursday, May 22nd at 7pm. She will be signing copies of her best-selling book Audition...
Can we just say that we're 100 pages into Anna Karenina , and now we're FINALLY fully able to vet Janet Malcolm's joke about Gossip Girl 's Nate Archibald, who she describes as "a kind of Vronsky manqué, with a grande-dame mother...
Janet Maslin really, really likes James Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning . She calls it a "captivating urban kaleidoscope" and goes on to suggest that this book is going to "save" Frey, or that this is how he saved himself...
Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...
We know that the point of this New York Times Sunday Styles piece on N+1 editor and author Keith Gessen wasn't supposed to be about the fact that he is obsessed with checking his Amazon.com ranking. Though it's nice to know that even good-looking...
The best Times lede we've seen in a long time kicks off Charles McGrath's review of Joshua Kendall's The Man Who Made Lists , which chronicles the life and times of the creator of Roget's Thesaurus. It goes like this: Sylvia Plath loved...
Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley , Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped , uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring...
Okay!! Our editor sent us this link to Polyvore a couple of weeks ago, and we were all, oh, cool, it's like Cher's computer in Clueless . And then we promptly forgot about it. But the delightful T.Y. at the Lit Connection was inspired, and she...
Yup. Liz Phair reviewed Dean Wareham's Black Postcards : A Rock & Roll Romance in this Sunday's NYTBR . Among other things, we have learned that her mother named her Elizabeth Clark Phair because she thought it would make a good New Yorker...
Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet ? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post , in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers? So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers...
Keith Gessen: Author, broad-shouldered man. The Observer is really doing some excellent shoe-leather reporting on sub-cultures these days. Last week's awkward musing on Urbane Tomboys flummoxed us (aren't these girls just hipsters who wear boy...
Zadie Smith: "Put it in a drawer." One of PopSerious 's correspondents was at a lecture at Columbia University yesterday, where writer Zadie Smith ( White Teeth ) gave a lecture on "Feeling Fraudelent." Below, some wise words by...
Memed Out Have you read Stuff White People Like ? It's a very funny blog. We hope it will be a very, very, very funny book. Actually, it will probably have to be the funniest book in the entire fucking world to sell enough copies to justify the alleged...
We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.) But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the...
© Rachel McPherson You know how sometimes, someone says something that makes your face hot and your hands ball into fists of fury and your face go into perma-scowl only to realize you have let them get away with it? We do! Oh, we do, we do, WE DO! We...
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