If You’re a Fugitive, Isn’t Your Reputation Already In Shambles?
Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski has been allowed to testify via live video link in his libel case against Vanity Fair. Polanski is now 71 and lives in France, a fugitive from American justice, having fled the country after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Vanity Fair is sold in…
continue readingLibraries for Coffee Shops?
MediaBistro picked up an interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education that highlights the shocking disappearance of books from college libraries. Thomas H. Benton (a psuedonym of a professor at a Midwestern liberal arts college) writes “What does it mean when the University of Texas at Austin removes nearly all of the books from…
continue readingTrident Media Seals Deal
The folks at Trident Media Group are definitely some of the more accessible, approachable, and generous agents that I’ve come across, so I was pleased to see that Melissa Flashman and Jenny Bent signed a great deal with Houghton Mifflin in a pre-empt recently. How to Be Useful: A Beginner’s Guide to the Meritocracy by…
continue readingGreat Line
I came across a great line in Wayne Koestenbaum???s essay My 80???s: ???The world was doing it???s best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.???
continue readingBoD: A Separate Peace
An oldie-but-goodie… I know, it’s not Joyce, it’s not Pynchon. It’s a kids book and all that. But A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a classic. Plus, it’s hot as hell right now, and A Separate Peace always makes me think of cool fall nights, changing leaves, and clanking radiators as the heat begins…
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