Maybe Folks Just Don’t Like Mothers as Fish
Maybe my hero William Faulkner just ain’t what America wants. Seems like Oprah’s touch is back. Publishers Weekly is reporting that Vintage announced 85,000 copies of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces since Oprah’s endorsement was announced 4 days ago. Maybe if Faulkner had been cutting up lines “on a bevel” instead of coffins, he…
continue readingMoving…
I’m moving at this week, so please bear with me if there are fewer posts than usual. The moving company sends out this guy to look at the apartment and all the stuff and he provides an estimate of total weight. There aren’t any real calculations except for the fact this guy’s been doing this…
continue readingMy Lion Can Beat Up Your Stupid Wizard
From Bookninja, I learned about this great article that details the sometimes bitter and contentious relationship between CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. Seems they fought frequently, sometimes violently. At one point, the pair argued about The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe which prompted Lewis to write that there’s “no harm in him, only needs…
continue readingBondurant Reads at Baltimore Book Festival
I recently mentioned Matt Bondurant’s great story, Telemetry in the new issue of Glimmertrain. And of course, he was one of the earlier interviews conducted for Slushpile. This past weekend, Bondurant appeared at the Baltimore Book Festival where he read from his novel, The Third Translation and also took part in a panel discussion entitled…
continue readingDrugs, Vomit, and No Novacaine on Oprah
This was on all the book blogs last week during our power outage, but if you happened to miss the news, Oprah recently reversed her strategy of picking classics only for her book club. And the new selection is James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces. It’s an interesting selection for a couple of reasons, but…
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