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Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet ? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post , in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers? So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers...
We love the Interweb! (Except when it tries to break our blog.) But you know what we don't love? E-books. E-books are gross. It's like, we and nearly everyone else we know with day jobs spend hours upon hours staring at a screen and reading the...
Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker ! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the...
The Washington Post has a story on the latest winner of the Nobel Prize in literature . Oh, those sweet-talking Brits: Doris Lessing was out grocery shopping near her home in London yesterday when the Swedish Academy announced she had won the 2007 Nobel...
Too bad Chris Crocker and his not-fake crying and serious glitter eyeshadow didn't bother You Tubing a video about leaving poor James Frey alone a year ago. Oh well - just watch this and replace "Britney" with "James." So yeah...
It's NOT okay. We're really grouchy now. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has fired longtime book editor Teresa Weaver and threatens to eliminate its book review section completely. Demoralizing beyond words? You bet. Sign a petition to protest...
