December 9, 2006 The film based on Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal is receiving early raves and lashings. (I recently interviewed Heller about the adaptation.) Read more
December 9, 2006 A.S. Byatt argues that Willa Cather isn’t just a competent writer specializing “in ‘local colour’ about frontier life…. [S]he is unique, and great.” Read more
December 9, 2006 Like a Brazil outtake: Verizon quotes a rate of .002¢/KB, repeatedly reaffirms that rate, but refuses to adjust charges billed at $.002/KB. (Via.) Read more
December 9, 2006 A Nobel-winning astrophysicist denounces the EPA’s unceremonious closing of the “strongest library for space science and engineering in the universe.” Read more
December 8, 2006 Sklar’s failure to piss herself laughing at Hitchens’ Vanity Fair knee-slapper is just more proof of the matter asserted therein, evidently. (Via.) Read more
