Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“If an intelligent life form has built a spaceship, there’s the question of ‘why not make it out of stone or coral?'” Good question. Is there an alien spaceship at the…
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Charley Locke
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You can find Charley Locke's journalism on WIRED, tweets @CHARLEY_LOCKE, and drawings on her parents' fridge. You can also sometimes spot Charley imperiously making book recommendations while managing the McSweeney's Pop-Up Shops.
Jay Gatsby’s Back
Jay McInerney explains why the American classic The Great Gatsby, the last book that Hannah Kingsley-Ma and Kate Geiselman loved, is making a resurgence this year. After all, Jimmy Gatz “invents a hero…
Chuck Palahniuk’s “victims of his gore-filled prose”
On June 11, Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and Choke, published Invisible Monsters Remix, a director’s cut of the novel in which “the reader is made to jump back and…
The Latest Diary of Adrian Mole, Coming of (Middle) Age
Adrian Mole, protagonist of the coming-of-age novels The Adrian Mole Diaries, faces adult problems in Sue Townsend’s latest book, the 10th in the series. “Having had his first incarnation aged 13…
E-Books: “the book-cover equivalent of burqas”
In the Chicago Tribune, Christopher Borrelli bemoans the rise of e-books for taking away “the genuine soul” that “the randomness and variety and art work of a tangible book being…
Musical Effects
At The Chronicle, Mark Edmundson, English professor at University of Virginia, explains the emotional importance of pop music, as it “suggests, by its easy, pleasurable repetitions,” that our “static inside” makes…
Existential Ménage-à-Trois
Andy Martin, author of The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, writes about the woman called Wanda who ended the “bromance” between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. “Camus was the new kid on the…
Lou Reed, the poet
Lou Reed, member of The Velvet Underground, wrote a poem, “O Delmore how I miss you,” to his college professor Delmore Schwartz in Poetry Magazine. “Reading Yeats and the bell…
Women Better at Sex Writing?
Martin Amis, whose new novel made it onto the PW Best Summer Books list, explained to his audience at the Hay Festival that “women write better about sex.” “As a…
“Bradbury Was My Man”
Junot Díaz, author of the last book Jordan Alam loved, mourns Ray Bradbury, writing of how the “prescient lyrical writer with an abiding hatred for intolerance” inspired “many of our…
I Am Spartacus!
In an interview with Royal Young, Kirk Douglas, iconic screen legend and son of Russian immigrants, tells tales of breaking the blacklist in HUAC-era Hollywood. His memoir, I Am Spartacus!:…