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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...
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...
Hell to the yes. "Fine Lines," the newish Friday feature at ultimate lady-blog Jezebel just keeps getting more and more delish. The past fortnight showcased two of our especial YA favorites: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger and Elizabeth...
Okay, we feel badly for calling out Jezebel about the whole bitter thing -- it's not all the time! it's just about certain stuff! and we understand how they feel because excessive shallowness is annoying! -- but anyway, we are kissing their collective...
Oh, we love oddly theme magazine issues. MediaBistro's GalleyCat alerted us to the fact that the literary magazine Barrelhouse is seeking your best roller derby writing for an upcoming issue . Some details to bear in mind: Barrelhouse wants: "Fiction...
I just finished Diane Vadino's amazing debut, Smart Girls Like Me, last week. In preparation for the review I've been assigned to write, I Googled around and found her also-amazing and mouth-wateringly delicious fashion-and-shopping blog, Bunnyshop...
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion...
Too bad Chris Crocker and his not-fake crying and serious glitter eyeshadow didn't bother You Tubing a video about leaving poor James Frey alone a year ago. Oh well - just watch this and replace "Britney" with "James." So yeah...
A piece in the New York Times ' business section today about author Ayn Rand and her economic legacy got us thinking. We read all of Rand's fiction back in high school, when we were feeling rebellious and anti-establishment and hating on adolescent...
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review , here's David Oshinsky's great essay about Knopf's biggest (and most regretable) rejections. See for yourself .
The YouTube tags for this one are: Bukowski, poetry, beer, shit. He uses the word "moxie" which is amazing in and of itself. Watch. Rewind. Repeat.
Fourth of July came and went, but post-pyrotechnics, it’s worth remembering the people that lost their freedoms in the political fireworks. Ellee Dean reviews the first two books in the new, eight-volume Penguin Library of Native American History, and...
I'm number one! Philip Roth wins his 3rd PEN/FAULKNER award for Everyman . Finalists included Edward P. Jones ( All Aunt Hagar's Children ) , Amy Hempel ( The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel ), Deborah Eisenberg ( Twilight of the Superheroes ...
Girl on the Verge We’ll admit to being a little jealous of VENDELA VIDA ’s charmed writer’s life. She co-edits the Believer magazine, she co-founded the non-profit children’s writing center 826 Valencia , and she lives in San Francisco with her literary...
