Bookish

I appreciate Sam Anderson's reviews over at New York Magazine. Usually on the spectrum of effusive, Sam takes time to illuminate a style or just

Blah, blah, blah, end of the year lists are hard. I think that’s truer for books more than music or movies or [insert media here]

For geographical reasons, Carl Crawford was one of my favorite baseball players. This past weekend he betrayed all that is good and noble about the

Got that difficult crust punk on your Christmas list and not sure what to get? What about that bro carrying around the Slingshot organizer and

From the always reliable Jimmy Chen at HTML Giant, who uncovers the recent NY police report of when Jonathan Safran Foer was allegedly robbed and

Not really sure what's going on at Google. First, they go to these libraries and scan a bunch of books. They don't let other people

Writers Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor had a revelation last year, one of those “aha” moments that become a movement. They wanted to chronicle the

Every year Britain's Literary Review hands out a “Bad Sex Award” for the most appallingly written sex scenes in a novel. Nominees for the award

Haven't done one of these in a while. Kind of on a holiday hangover and waiting for the next one. Plus there's loads of good

If your dark beautiful twisted fantasy is a couple of good hard cover editions with full-on institutional approval, then it is a season of thanks.