Banville’s Thoughts on Winning the Booker
The wonderful blog The Elegant Variation has an essay that John Banville wrote about his experience leading up to collecting the Booker. Interesting piece indeed. Check it out here.
continue readingDrug Company Sponsors Novel and Hires Jayson Blair to Edit
This is so strange that I have absolutely no idea of its veracity. But it’s a fun story anyway that Bookninja picked up. Evidently, a novel is being published called The Karasik Conspiracy. The plot is pretty straight-forward. A group of terrorists attacks the United States by poisoning low-cost prescription Canadian drugs purchased on the…
continue readingHuge Deal for Zappa Kids Book
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa, son of Frank and brother to Moon Unit and Dweezil, may very well be hosting the upcoming competition show But Can They Sing?, but he may not need the work for long. According to the VH1 website, the show “pits actors Morgan Fairchild, Joe Pantaliano, Bai Ling, Antonio Sabato, Jr, Michael…
continue readingAnd I Thought I was a Faulkner Fanatic
Via the excellent Syntax of Things, I learned about this story. It seems that Georgia State University grad student decided to make sure the sound and the fury did signify something, if only on his skin. Shyam Sriram got William Faulkner’s portrait tattooed on his left pec. “I like Faulkner so much because it’s so…
continue readingMassive Deal for Buffett Book
And it has nothing to do with Margaritaville… Reports were flying from numerous outlets yesterday that Bantam Dell has won the rights to a biography of not Jimmy, but Warren Buffet. The famous investor has previously been reticent in regards to biography efforts but now former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst Alice Schroeder has been given…
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