The Truth Behind Trucker Hats
This is probably hard for many of us to believe, thanks to the Ashton Kutcher-Paris Hilton-That Fez Guy-brainwashing our culture has endured, but the truth is that there really was a man who went by the nickname Von Dutch. And in spite of stupid trucker hats, expensive jeans, and all the other crap we know…
continue readingTwo Books, Two Performances
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about how two similar books by two unknown novelists have shared very different fates. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks are examined. To date, The Historian has 915,000 copies after six printings. By comparison, The Traveler has 200,000 copies after three…
continue readingSunday Book Review Round Up
Here’s a round-up of the Sunday book coverage. I’m afraid you’ll need to register for most of these sites, which is one of my big pet peeves in life, but it is usually free. So at least there’s that. Anyway, the critics seemed to be ready to dig into Bret Easton Ellis new novel as…
continue readingLots of Movement at NYT Book Review
MediaBistro is reporting a lot of office shifting at The New York Times Book Review. Eden Ross Lipson is retiring as children’s editor and is being replaced by Julie Just, who moves over from her spot as the deputy editor. Meanwhile, Bob Harris has been promoted to deputy editor, taking over Just’s vacated desk. And…
continue readingYou Can’t Avoid: Death, Taxes, and Book Club Torture
The Washington Post has an interesting article today on the Sisyphus-ean task of extricating yourself from a book club. Read the full article here.
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