Booker shortlist sales
Of the six books shortlisted for the Booker, five had sold 1500 or fewer copies before the list was released. (Via.)
Of the six books shortlisted for the Booker, five had sold 1500 or fewer copies before the list was released. (Via.)
As my Newton great-grandfather got older, he liked to have a towel draped over his shoulder. I don’t know whether it was always this pinkish-burgundy one. Apparently Grandaddy also enjoyed sitting on the couch in the semi-darkness, and saying “Ho ho ho, hum” at the top of his voice, over and over again. Once he and his wife, Mamma, stayed . . .
Last month I took some time away from the site to deal with various things, including eye troubles.* While worrying about everything that was piling up — all the books I’d never get to and the email I couldn’t answer — I pulled Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem from the shelf and rediscovered her essay “On Self-Respect.” Anyone trying to . . .
Paper Cuts unearths the trailer for the Coen brothers’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.
Want to know what it’s like to be in a room with Harry Crews? Watch his old Dennis Miller spot and multiply by 100. (Thanks, Dana.)