Don DeLillo on Writing as Freedom
Not long ago I was re-reading Jonathan Franzen’s famous Harper’s Essay as background to an essay I was working on, and towards the end Franzen quotes Don DeLillo, who had written…
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Blog Blurbs on Books?
On the cover of Rob Riemen’s Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal, a blurb from Mark Sarvos of the blog The Elegant Variation graces its bottom left corner. On his…
Morning Coffee
Giving blood doesn’t have to be boring, it can be terrifyingly futuristic too! “Efforts to prevent foul weather on Oct. 1 involved satellites, 400 scientists, cloud-probing lasers and a squadron…
Illustrated Interview
Artist Isaac Littlejohn Eddy recently interviewed Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, for The Sun & Anchor. Aside from being an interesting…
The Rumpus Review of Jennifer’s Body
It’s funny, the word choice in the title of Jennifer’s Body, the gory horror-comedy from, improbably enough, the writer and producers of Juno, 2007’s teen pregnancy comedy.
Fables of the Reconstruction
With patience reminiscent of Tolstoy, Cornelia Nixon weaves a tapestry of events to explain how an ordinary girl in post-Civil War Maryland kills her lover and gets away with it.
Kati Standefer: The Last Book I Loved, The Lake
The first time I read The Lake by Daniel Villasenor I was fifteen, crunched into the backseat of our tiny family Chrysler and on my way to Georgia. I’d plucked…
Glenn Beck Doesn’t Need Gimmicks
Ted Wilson, who recently reviewed Glenn Beck for his most recent “Ted Wilson Reviews the World” column, brought this footage from 1986 to our attention.
Random Media Notes
The Daily Beast gets into book publishing. “Dan Rather’s Case Against CBS Dismissed” New York Times pay model will be a “gut call.” Bernie Goldberg calls out Fox News’ journalistic…