Lots of People Interested in Living Biblically
More than a hundred people showed up last night on a cloudy evening to reading/signing with A.J. Jacobs. Maybe it was in hope that his famous biblical beard had returned. Jacobs turned out to be clean-shaven, but put on a great show. He read from his newest book The Year of Living Biblically: One…
continue readingHenkin Takes over TEV
Even on a normal day, The Elegant Variation is one of the best literary blogs around. But yesterday was particularly interesting because Joshua Henkin was guest-blogging while Mark was away from his usual TEV desk. Henkin, author of the well-received Matrimony: A Novel, covered a tremendous amount of ground in a single day of blogging.…
continue readingUnder the Top Hat
As regular Slushpile.net readers know, I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to music, particularly the kind that heavily features guitars. So I devour music biographies the minute they hit the shelves. I recently enjoyed Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star and Eric Clapton’s Clapton: The Autobiography.…
continue readingThirteen Scary Questions
Halloween is my Christmas So last night I paid twenty bucks then stood in line for better than two hours to finally get to stumble and cringe and scream my way through a haunted house. And I’ve got to say, I would have waited four hours. Six. Just because that thrill of being scared, that…
continue readingHappy Halloween!
I’m afraid (no pun intended) that my horror knowledge is woefully lacking. Aside from the trauma that Disney’s The Headless Horseman inflicted upon me as a small boy growing up on a horse farm, I don’t know that much about frights and the things that go bump in the night. So I turned to Stephen…
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