Louganis Alert Lifted
Well, I’m happy to say that France defeated Portugal in yesterday’s World Cup action. The victory by Les Bleus sets up the Sunday final of France versus Italy. I’m told that ESPN, which has been criticized for its World Cup coverage, had put Olympic great Greg Louganis on-alert. Had Portugal faced Italy in the finals, Louganis would…
continue readingLutz on Hannah
Bookslut features a great interview with Gary Lutz, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive. What originally caught my attention was Lutz’s invocation of the great brawling master, Barry Hannah. When I was nosing about in bookstores in the mid-eighties, I was eventually struck by certain slim books of prose fiction in which…
continue readingGet More Stuff
Over the weekend, the August 2006 issue of Stuff magazine hit the newsstands. I know, it ain’t The New Yorker and there aren’t any O. Henry prize winning stories in those pages. But I mention it because I did some work on this issue. It’s uncredited work so I’m not on the masthead, but them’s the breaks.…
continue readingHemmings Signs New Book Deal
According to the always useful Publishers Marketplace, Kauai Hart Hemmings recently signed a deal with Random House for The Descendants. The book is described as the story of a descendant of a Hawaiian royal family who, upon learning that his dying wife was having an affair, teams with his two troubled young daughters to find her…
continue readingIce Movie Continues to Make Progress
In spite of my glee the other day at the news that Lionsgate has optioned the rights to Larry Brown’s novel, The Rabbit Factory, I find it’s usually best to remain cautious about Hollywood’s interaction with the book world. So many books and stories are optioned, but never actually made into a film. And…
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