Protecting Your Blind Side Is Worth Seven Figures
Variety reported that the film rights to Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game were won by Twentieth Century Fox in “in a heated bidding war that pushed the price past seven figures.” Although Lewis’s previous best seller Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game dealt with baseball, his newest book looks at college…
continue readingEditorials from the Good Old Days
As dumbed-down as most of our newspapers are these days, it’s difficult to imagine that some reader in the future will be confused by the complexity of our editorials. But maybe they will. In the wonderful Three Strides Before the Wire: The Dark and Beautiful World of Horse Racing, Elizabeth Mitchell quotes a 1916 editorial…
continue readingPessl at Pitkins
Maud Newton and Lauren Cerand point out that Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics will appear tonight at Mo Pitkin’s in New York as part of The Reader’s Room reading series. The event starts at 7pm and also features Lorin Stein, who translated Gregoire Bouiller’s book The Mystery Guest: An Account. Should be a…
continue readingJailhouse Tattoo of Revenge
On a more serious note… Besides being one of our most accomplished noir writers, besides being a single-minded force striving for the protection of our children, Andrew Vachss is also a visionary. Not in some mystical, magical way. But in a forward-scout or telescopic way. Quite simply, he sees things before you and I do. In 1986,…
continue readingHootie Had It Right!
I seem to recall a radio interview with Hootie and the Blowfish years ago. The boys talked about hitting the big time and all the usual stuff. But the one thing that stuck in my mind was how they claimed to have declined a massive advance in favor of a more modest one. Although…
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