Dickens: all about the “Bah, humbug.”
Galleycat considers the LA Times’ Best-of List.
“A few summers back, mere months before the ship really began to sink, I was an intern at the Village Voice.”
“Where is noir?” indeed.
“The New York Times and Los Angeles Times (to name but two) comment at length on the Man Booker circus before, during and after the event. By contrast, the three major American prizes for fiction typically pass without notice in the British press. Barely a reference to them can be found in the 2006 archives of our major broadsheets. Nor, alas, has mention of them been made in these pages. They might as well happen on Planet Nowhere, as far as the London literary world is concerned.”
I think I found the perfect Christmas present for someone who idolizes the Romantics.
“Misquotations are often more than mistakes, and much more interesting.”
Oh, the joys of holiday gift giving in the office.
How to avoid a lawsuit, part infinity.
“The familiar observation that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time obscures a more startling fact: the Bible is the best-selling book of the year, every year.”
Sarvas, you have outdone yourself.
“What I particularly liked about this book was the way it was subtitled ‘A Novel,’ so that I knew it was a novel.”
The pitfalls of reviewing non-classics.