I’ve been in a literary dry spell for a while. Bought a Gore Vidal book and barely touched it. And I haven’t bothered to finish a few other things sitting around. Can’t get motivated to properly dig into this quite yet either. But there are a few newly available titles trickling into the market right [...]
Daniel Kalder: “Rider Publishing, an imprint of Ebury at Random House, acquired rights to Crossing the Border, a memoir by Jang Jin-sung – former ‘court poet’ to Kim Jong-il, and will publish next spring…Jang was so trusted that he met Kim Jong-il twice. The first time, Jang explained in an interview with the BBC last [...]
The idiot clamor of the Humorless Class has reached an intolerable apex. To wit: psychotically stupid web site Jezebel is attempting to characterize Sean Tejaratchi, one of the most clever/open-minded/likable people in the Twitterverse, as sexist. So I guess it’s official — almost everyone in America has lost their mind. *****************UPDATE! Tej responds in kind, [...]