Robert James Waller Has Died
Robert James Waller, author of the mega-selling Bridges of Madison CountyVariety’s obit gets even more specific and says the writing took only 11 days. While the critics largely panned the overly sappy and sentimental novel, I remember selling tons of these books, even though I started working in a book store a couple of years…
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New Fitzgerald Short Story Published
Anything related to F. Scott Fitzgerald is worth celebrating, so the publication of a never before published short story is a great way to soften a Monday entry into the work week. Especially with the weathermen all calling for a blizzard in the next 24 hours on the East Coast. Check out “The I.O.U.”, a…
continue readingSmall Town Corruption Gets the Literary Treatment
Nick Tabor’s excellent “A Town Under Trial” was published in the most recent issue of the Oxford American. In the piece, Tabor examines the twenty-two-year-old murders of two prostitutes in Oak Grove, Kentucky. Situated near the Army’s massive Fort Campbell base, Oak Grove stood apart for a number of reasons outlined by Tabor. As a…
continue readingCould The Juice Get a Book Deal Today?
CNN has a detailed article about how O.J. Simpson could be paroled in October. The piece explains that Simpson has a hearing with the Nevada parole board in July. Famously, an earlier book deal did not end well. Negative reaction to HarperCollins plans to publish If I Did It in 2006 lead to the book’s…
continue readingInvisibility in the Era of Surveillance
The Wikileaks dump yesterday raises a number of questions about privacy in the modern era of what some would call a surveillance state. Most specifically, The New Yorker examines 5 questions about the release. Coincidentally, at the same time, I’m working my way through Kevin Mitnick’s The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker…
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