Rec/Link Round-Up
Premiere-week hell continues over at TWoP, but we’ve got a boatload of new content going up, including my latest Brothers & Sisters Classic; a weecap of the Chuck pilot, which I really liked a lot...
View ArticleVacation reading list
I’m out of town for a few days; while I’m gone, I’ll be finishing Posner’s Case Closed, and starting I Love You, Beth Cooper and that book on the TV-news wars Kim lent me months ago. While I’m gone, no...
View Article“‘Overrated!’‘Brilliant!’‘Overrated!’‘Brilliant!'”
I’ve never broken up with a guy based on his literary tastes (or lack of same), but then, I don’t let it get to relationship status in the first place if the guy doesn’t read, or loves Patricia...
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Due Respect
“Everyone except me is just so STUPID.” I like finding out that people or institutions don’t suck as much as I’d thought. It happened three years ago, during the writing of the TWoP book; I had a...
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Department Of Famous Boyfriends: Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn’s zero-Fahrenheit appraisal of James Frey’s new novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is a reviewing masterpiece, opening with a sharp observation about the L.A.-novel genre and building through...
View ArticleConsider The Author
Because a few people have asked…fans of David Foster Wallace should read Troy Patterson’s write-up for Slate. Troy is a fellow vet of our college paper, and his take is on point as usual. Well, as...
View Article“I was almost excommunicated in the second grade”
I never read the Sunday Times anymore, really, but I bought a copy of it today because I’m moving (no big whoop, just within Brooklyn, and more on that later but the moving process is invited to eat a...
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Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 9
I went back to Chao Camp at midday. AB had tried to text me to say that Mad Chao was getting sprung from the clink, but I’d left my phone at Chao Camp, and my jacket, and at least five IQ points. Did...
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xoJane.com: Like A Dog To Its Own Vomit
(c) xoJane.com, and for the record, SHE LOOKS FINE Jane Pratt has me cringing again. Reader AMA tipped me to Pratt’s new project, xoJane.com, and wondered about my thoughts “given [my] previous...
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Too Much Money
Doddsie, who put propriety above everything else, had never forgotten nor forgiven Elias Renthal’s reverberating fart on his exit from the Butterfield nearly eight years earlier, after he had been...
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