Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast — which takes its name from Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop — has launched. As a longtime admirer of Brown (in a city where contempt for powerful women who are actually smart sometimes seems de rigueur), I was excited when my friend Bryan Keefer invited me to be part of the site’s Buzz . . .
Victor LaValle tells Gregory Cowles that his next novel, Big Machine, considers the essential American question: who gets God? (More LaValle.)
Stephen Moore says Thomas Pynchon’s next book will be 400 pages — a 60’s noir story, heavy on the psychedelia. (See also.)
I think I’ve been awaiting a different third Donna Tartt novel, but Galleycat has the goods on the real thing.
TNR reads the letters of Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Bishop — a topic of perennial interest — and detects a mutual schooling. (Via.)