Bountiful Publishing Opportunities on eBay
For anyone out there with dreams of becoming the next Maxwell Perkins or maybe Charles Scribner, there are plenty of acquisition opportunities on eBay right now. For $700,000 you can purchase the copyrights for “three books. They are books on 9/11/2001. A story of courage under fire. One book is on domestic violence. A tragedy that…
continue readingVollman Goes Batty
The fine folks over at The Bat Segundo Show scored a major interview with literary genius William T. Vollman. Vollman discussed a wide range of topics including Copernicus, the relationship between religion and science, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ptolemy, Intelligent Design, Iraq, live lived according to the “cash nexus” versus life in other countries, the Bush Administration as…
continue readingWhen Did Jesse Helms Move to Hollywood?
I’m confused. Or maybe I’m just a bumpkin. But I thought Hollywood was liberal. The Kerry-Edwards ticket defeated Bush-Cheney in the state of California by more than 1.2 million votes. Presumably, much of that came from Los Angeles and Hollywood. British media outlet The Guardian reported that more than 1,500 Hollywood residents “from all walks of…
continue readingJude’s Making a Bunch of Money
Thousands of pieces of stolen body parts? $5 million in tissue quarantined or destroyed? Man, with that kind of volume, Jude from Will Christopher Baer’s fantastic Kiss Me, Judas must really be busy. Taking organs from corpses isn’t her usual MO as she prefers live victims, but maybe she’s branching out.
continue readingLiterary Liars
Samuel G. Freedman writes in the Columbia Journalism Review that the James Frey controversy was simply The Predictable Scandal. Meanwhile, changes were made at The Village Voice as a result of the fabricated story on pickup artists. The errant journalist who wrote the article, Nick Sylvester, remains on suspension but he still has a job.…
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