Posts tagged as Heh
Lady Bombs Audition
Lady comic Halle Kiefer, in the latest episode of "Uncastable." See also: Uncastable: Bobby Finger.
The Antidepressant Maraca
Move over, cottage cheese containers, now Mike Doughty has tiny pills to use as percussion. Also he feels better.
Your Life Can Seem Ever More Mundane
@CathyHorynNYT
Cathy Horyn Benches cracking at Balenciaga as guests leap up. A second one just carted off. Now a third broke and nervous buzz starts, as in "Me next?"
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Hollywood as Free Money
“Hollywood is essentially in the business of not making movies,” said Henry Finder, editorial director of The New Yorker. “They only make a movie when they run out of reasons not to make it.” READ MORE
True Harrowing Tales of Book Publishing!
This is a really terrific essay by Alex Shakar, who was set up to be the Hot New Un-Sad Literary Young Man ten years ago with his first novel, when Bill Clegg got him $300,000 (or more?) from Robert Jones at HarperCollins. Pub date: September, 2001. Guess what happened! That's right: Jones died and Clegg, soon enough, went MIA in a crackhouse. Oh also some other stuff I guess. READ MORE
Should You Memoir? "Are You Pat Nixon In China?"
"[T]here are good reasons to embark on a memoir: the world and the self collide in a particular way that only you, or mostly you, can narrate; you would like a preemptive grab at controlling the discourse. For instance: Are you Winston Churchill? Are you Nixon in China? Are you Pat Nixon in China? Did you compose Nixon in China? (Its composer, John Adams, has in fact written an engaging memoir.) Are you connected to a fascinating and underexplored chapter in history in any manner whatever? Are you a professional storyteller with a beautiful prose style and some autobiography begging for reportage? Are you a trenchant thinker with incisive analytical powers? Do you have a social cause you would like to advocate strenuously? And if none of the above, are you Brigitte Bardot?" READ MORE
7 Out of 10 Double-Reviewed Books at the 'Times' Are By Men
Anonymous ladies at Slate crunch the number of book reviews by gender at the New York Times over the last two years (throwing their data-gathering "associate editor Chris Wilson" under the bus as they do so-no Times reviews in your future, buddy!). So: "Of the 545 books reviewed between June 29, 2008 and Aug. 27, 2010, 338 were written by men (62 percent of the total) [and] 207 were written by women (38 percent of the total).... Of the 101 books that received two reviews in that period: 72 were written by men (71 percent)." READ MORE
Balls Balls Balls
His name is Ed Balls, and his candidacy for the leadership of Britain's Labour party will actually be an important indicator on which direction that nation's opposition wishes to take after a dispiriting defeat (he is identified with the Gordon Brown wing of the party, while his chief rivals are Tony Blair proteges), but that's not what really matters here: If you think I'm passing up something with the headline "Balls expected to enter fray" you are giving me far too much credit for maturity and taste.
