A great supplement to the deliciously bizarre The Joke’s Over: “The only compromise I made on the platform is that I agreed the deputies would not be able to eat mescaline while on duty.”
The first text message book.
“We’re sorry to say this, but the barrier for entry into the world of being a published author is low.”
And how much do you know about Scottish authors, smarty pants?
“We don’t want time to run meanly forward and the dead to be dead.”
I spy…
About Ian McEwan–he’s quite all right.
Wines in the Koran.
“The class photograph test–What will be the destinies of these children? Which of them will go the furthest?– has a particular pointedness in the cases of Stalin and Hitler.”
Los Angeles: not just for celebrities (it was, after all, Bukowski’s stomping grounds).