Wed, June 3rd, 2009
Aleksandar Hemon and Jacob Weisberg Not Quite on the Same Page
Posted by: Keir Graff
I am so sick of “death of publishing” articles, so tired of talking about the ridiculously oversimplified “print versus web” argument that I could spit. (But I won’t, because Mama Graff didn’t raise no spitter.) So what did I do last night? Why, I hied myself down to “The Future of the Book: A Conversation on [...]
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Tue, June 2nd, 2009
Of Wodehouse and Washington
Posted by: Courtney Jones
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize was awarded to Geoff Dyer for Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi at this year’s Hay Festival. The Wodehouse is the UK’s only literary award for comic writing. The winner receives champagne, 52 volumes of the Everyman Wodehouse edition, and a pig is named after the winning book. Ha. Meanwhile, [...]
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Mon, June 1st, 2009
There’s Something about Nancy
Posted by: Gillian Engberg
According to a feature by Mary Jo Murphy in yesterday’s New York Times, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor share more than just a passion for the law: It doesn’t take a big clue to deduce that there’s something between Supreme Court women and Nancy Drew of River Heights, Somewhere, U.S.A., the teenage [...]
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