Elaine Lafferty, the best thing to happen to Ms. magazine in years, has resigned. The Observer reports on Lafferty’s tenure at the magazine: When she started as editor in chief of Ms. in March 2003, “there was no inventory, no staff–it was like a startup, and they needed a summer issue,” said Ms. Lafferty. She assembled a masthead, with a . . .
During a panel discussion at Blue Metropolis, Montreal’s international literary festival, a prominent Canadian radio host will make the case that songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen should win the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Michael Schaub agrees, and I can think of far less deserving writers whose names have been put forward.) In 2003, Canada awarded Cohen its highest civilian . . .
No, it’s not an outtake from Freaks and Geeks. (Some of us just lived it more than others.) This photo and several more are taken from Patrick Hughes’ 1984 Tarpon Springs High School yearbook.
Stephen Galloway puzzles over doomed screen adaptations, starting with John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces — “now on indefinite hold” — and surveying a few other big-budget options that didn’t pan out. Among other things, he notes that “Warners owned rights to Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History for years before Miramax took it over, only to drop . . .
According to Microsoft Word, these sentences are grammatically correct: Marketing are bad for brand big and small. You Know What I am Saying? It is no wondering that advertisings are bad for company in America, Chicago and Germany. Gates do good marketing job in Microsoft. Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check. Sandeep Krishnamurthy, a University of Washington . . .