Rap gets the institutional treatment
If your dark beautiful twisted fantasy is a couple of good hard cover editions with full-on institutional approval, then it
Get an agent through dumb luck
The Awl ran a piece last week about five different writers and their agents. Some wrote B.S., others had nice
Patti Smith wins a book award
Last night I was following some NBA games, but there was also the more scholarly, less prestigious NBA going on
Jonathan Safran Foer is into cutting
Jonathan Safran Foer cuts up a book and people love him for it. Called Trees of Code, it's really fancy
Quick Questions with Adam Langer, author of Thieves of Manhattan
Thieves of Manhattan, the recent book from Adam Langer (Spiegel & Grau 2010), is a metacommentary on memoirs and action
ShatnerQuake Bizarro
Thought these 12 bizarro lit covers were good, including the one below for ShatnerQuake by Jeff Burk. Bizarro lit is
2 months left, but here's Amazon's 2010 Top 100 books
The world still has at least 7 weeks of 2010 left, but Amazon is going to go ahead and release
Cash Money to publish books
Big-time rap label Cash Money is introducing Cash Money Content–yes, a book publishing company. When Lil Wayne gets out today
NaNoWriMo is actually ORPTTPHEWI
Besides the days getting colder, the darkness beginning early and the increase in general bitterness, November also has a horrible
Quick Questions with FreeDarko's Bethlehem Shoals
This week sees the arrival of FreeDarko's book, The Undisputed Guide to Basketball History (Bloomsbury USA, 2010) Yes, it corresponds
