Baghdad hotel an Army target despite journalists’ known presence there
A whistleblower reveals that a Baghdad hotel shelled in 2003, while journalists were stationed there, was on an Army target list. (Via.)
A whistleblower reveals that a Baghdad hotel shelled in 2003, while journalists were stationed there, was on an Army target list. (Via.)
In “Papa Hemingway! Where Are the Men?,” Choire Sicha, no hater of boys, laments the state of their writing — and offers a Katherine Dunn update.
Rebecca Skloot reports that the talented Wyatt Mason will be keeping a blog, Sentences, at the Harper’s site.
Everything GMB says about ye olde daye job is true, including the part about the guy who dropped his toothbrush in the urinal and then brushed his teeth with it anyway. At right is a blurry photo of the famed “Please do not spit in sink!” sign that someone hung in the kitchen. My favorite part: The “How disgusting!” appended . . .
I love that a Steinbeck novel makes Mark’s list of old favorites he’s afraid to reread. (I revisited East of Eden last year.)