The US cartoonist Chris Ware has done more than anyone to change the modern perception of comic books, says The Independent.
The “disappearing act” by Agatha Christie over 11 days in 1926 has always been a subject of huge curiosity and mystery.
Google’s most-searched books.
But Denham got turned off when Phillip Roth next suggested a threesome with his wife and then refused to listen to her as she tried to describe a novel she was writing. “Only the young and naive do that. I don’t rap about it; I do it,” Roth scolded her (via Syntax of Things).
Bookslut likes my other employer, and if you’re even a little enthusiastic about science and the third culture, I bet you will too.
James Ellroy is guest-blogging (via Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind).
“What Iowa Did to Manhattan“–that encounter sounds a bit… familiar.
Why do professors and students put on polyester gowns and funny hats and march, once a year, in the uncertain glory of the late spring? Why, when most of our graduate students are going to work as teachers, do we make them spend years grinding out massive, specialized dissertations, which, when revised and published, may reach a readership that numbers in the high two figures?