Sony Unveils New E-Book Reader
As all card-carrying gadget geeks know, the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is going on right now, bringing visions of a techie utopia to everyone who lusts after the latest cellphone, bluetooth gadget, plasma television, or motorized floating rafts. Myself, I freaking hate cellphones and still lug around my old bag phone that I…
continue readingHigh Praise for Debut Novel
Michiko Kakutani, who I sometimes think of as the Mikey (you know that chubby kid from those old cereal commercials who won’t eat anything) of the literary world. It’s tough to get compliments from this critic. But in a rave New York Times review today, Kakutani writes “Question: what do you get if you…
continue readingMore on the Identity of JT Leroy
Like researchers lining the shores of Loch Ness, determined to prove the existence of a sea monster or equally driven to show that it’s all a hoax, more and more people are wading into the JT Leroy question. In Who’s That Boy/Girl?, Laura Barton and The Guardian add in their research to the mix.…
continue readingFilthy Lucre
Aspiring authors frequently devote so much time to pursuing goal of being published. But from a financial standpoint, what does that really mean? The news headlines are full of huge book deals, like the $2.2 million Little, Brown gave to first-time novelist Elizabeth Kostova for The Historian. That kind of advance is often the only…
continue readingMining Tragedy
Unfortunately, it seems the situation with the trapped miners in Tallmansville, WV has turned out horribly. When I went to bed last night, there had been one body found in the Sago Mine, but hope remained for the others. This morning, the news is that 12 of the 13 men were found dead. Evidently, at some…
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