Unregistered sales of explicit books to be a misdemeanor?
A bill would require Indiana bookstores to register with the state before selling sexually explicit materials, or face charges.
A bill would require Indiana bookstores to register with the state before selling sexually explicit materials, or face charges.
At last some acclaim for Kate Christensen’s The Great Man: The novel has won the 2008 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction. (Interview here; hot toddy recipe here.)
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The great — and ailing — Harry Crews is at work on a new volume of his memoirs, Assault of Memory. (Thanks, PH; see also.)
Well, that sucked, but for the moment we’re up and running. If you’re just tuning in, the site’s been down all weekend, and I was afraid I wouldn’t get the archives back. Evidently, over the last four months or so, some Russian hackers created an extensive drug sales network at MaudNewton.com. (They were probably responsible for all the agita I . . .