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Morning, readers. And Happy Mardi Gras.
*Today in Posthumousness: Hunter S. Thompson calls audio-video establishment, begins to voice coherent complaint, wavers, descends into blabbering rage, threatens to ruin audio-video establishment by writing about it. (Audio portion above.) Here, the good Doctor might've benefited from M.I.A.'s [...]
Morning, readers.
*The Berlin Film Festival is set to kick off on February 12. Roman Polanski, who will not be attending, will nonetheless submit The Ghost Writer for consideration. The Telegraph reports that Polanski was "delighted" with a recent screening at his chalet in Gstaad, where he is currently enjoying house arrest. Personally, I prefer the [...]
It's tough these days to address the work of Georgia O'Keeffe without undue reference to Alfred Stieglitz, or to vaginas. In fact, there are those who claim it can't be done. To these people, we say: sometimes a throbblingly detailed rendering of the reproductive organs of flowers is just a throbbingly detailed rendering of the [...]
*The Guardian's lit blog posits Twitter as an elegant way to announce one's resignation, cites the case of Jonathan Schwartz, who until yesterday morning served as CEO of Sun Microsystems. His #haiku effort:
Financial crisis
Stalled too many customers
CEO no more.
Schwartz loses points for imagery but recoups on the kicker. Bonus point to Alison Flood for the [...]
Today's mail brought an advance copy of an intriguing new memoir. I know it's an intriguing new memoir from its title: Burdens on My Journey: An Intriguing Memoir.
For my money, author Aubrey C.H. Brown Jr.,, D.Th. has chanced upon a title so generically complete that future memoirists will cower in its shadow.
I'd also like to [...]
Sterling Children's Books is pleased as punch to announce the release of Man Gave Names to All the Animals, a children's-book rendering of Bob Dylan's song of the same name. Jim Arnosky, the artist behind the book whose previous titles include Babies in the Bayou and All About Frogs, took his inspiration from the "land [...]
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*Today: Oscar nominations! They're in. Like as not, we'll have a spot of blog commentary from Tricia Olszewski, who's filing dispatches from sunny SoCal. They say it's 70 out there this a.m.; Tricia should maybe bring her editor along next time. just informed me that she canceled her L.A. trip and is, in fact, [...]
To generations of readers, J.D. Salinger has remained a figure frozen in time, not unlike his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield. Chalk that up partly to the youth he explored in much of his literature—boarding schools, scout outings, the playground of the Upper East Side—and to the fact that Salinger had retreated to Cornish, N.H. [...]
Last month, LA Weekly awarded Slash the prestigious "Best MySpace Page" nod at the 2009 L.A. Web Awards. The guitarist's Newscorp home boasts such features as a TurboTax banner ad, an attractive purple and black background, and the compulsory skull-wearing-a-top-hat insignia. In a post this morning, LA Weekly's Erin Broadley speaks with Slash about his [...]
J.D. Salinger—creator of Holden Caufield, enigmatic writer, and noted recluse—died this morning at his home in Cornish, NH, the AP reports. The author of Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, and Franny and Zooey was 91. Salinger moved to Cornish in 1953 and rarely stirred thence, shunning interviews, publishing intermittently, and issuing no shortage of [...]
