RIP John Wooden
In the middle of last week, I was re-organizing some book shelves (or, to be honest, vainly attempting to create some organization) and pulled a number of sports books down. On top of the pile was the 1997 book Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden with…
continue readingNew Yorker Releases 20-Best-Under-40 List
The New Yorker released it’s list of the best (or most worth-watching or coolest or hippest or whatever criteria) writers under the age of 40. The list is in conjunction with the magazine’s special double-literature issue that will be released this coming Monday. Here’s the rundown of the names (along with ages) courtesty of The…
continue readingThe Paris Review Launches Blog
Esteemed literary journal The Paris Review has launched a daily blog. In the introductory post, editor Lorin Stein writes, “Taking inspiration from the Review’s founding editor, George Plimpton, our mode will be participatory journalism, our beat the arts. We will write about what we love, not as critics, but as participants—as amateurs in the Plimptonian…
continue readingBuy Anne Rice’s Pad for $3.3 Mill
Seems that bestselling vampire writer Anne Rice is selling her home (at least one of them, that is) in an effort to downsize. Although most readers probably associate Rice with New Orleans, this news article points out that she is selling a 9,000 square-foot pad in the desert near Palm Springs. Purchase the home, move…
continue readingThe New Juiced?
The sports pages are full of details about Floyd Landis’s admission that he used performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. So we’re taking bets: how long until Landis signs a book deal? With the bestseller success of Jose Canseco’s 2006 book Juiced: Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, it seems to…
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