Vonnegut joins Fox News hit list
As if I didn’t loathe Fox News enough already: “By the late ’70s, Vonnegut was rich and irrelevant, the subject of other people’s books, and a sacred cow of the New York literary scene.”
As if I didn’t loathe Fox News enough already: “By the late ’70s, Vonnegut was rich and irrelevant, the subject of other people’s books, and a sacred cow of the New York literary scene.”
Geoffrey Philp has the skinny on the year’s Calabash International Literary Festival. Akashic, which is putting out Colin Channer’s The Girl with the Golden Shoes, will be there.
The Florida Legislature forces my alma mater to name its Department of Education after Jeb Bush (the man who can’t spell “subtle”). (Thanks, Zeebah.)
Cormac McCarthy takes the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In other news, The Road is Hollywood-bound.
If you’re free next Thursday, April 26, come on out to a party for When I Was a Loser, that anthology of high school essays I keep mentioning, at Lolita. Bring your yearbook (or marching band) photos. Answer nerd trivia. Win prizes. Contributors Kelly Braffet, Owen King, James P. Othmer, and I will read very brief selections from our essays. . . .