Website operators traditionally have relied on the Communications Decency Act to shield them from liability for user-generated content. The April decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley v. Roommates.com significantly narrows this immunity. Over the weekend my friend and former law professor Lyrissa Lidsky alerted me to the case, noting that . . .
Customs officials routinely seize laptops brought back into the country by U.S. citizens returning from international travel.
Junot Díaz admits Grand Theft Auto IV is no Moby-Dick, Beloved, or even Battlestar Galactica, but argues it’s a matter of time.
Mark Sarvas admires Ed Park’s Personal Days. He asks not why we’ve seen two recent novels about cubicle life but why we haven’t seen more.
Years and years ago, I read an interview in which the director John Waters divulged his strategy for avoiding conversations with fellow passengers on airplanes. He hides whatever book he’s reading behind the cover for Flying Lesbian Nuns.* Last night New York’s Blythe Sheldon saw Waters performing This Filthy World at the Society for Ethical Culture. Among other things, . . .