Breaking: Augusten Burroughs not entirely honest (this is news?).
“As is inscribed above The New Criterion’s office door: ‘no good deed goes unpunished.'” I smell a litmag feud brewing.
Ever heard of Edith Halpert?
“You see Hemingway as a big, burly, manly man who’s out shooting animals, but that’s one of his masks. It’s a Hemingway persona. But Hemingway the writer is an incredible craftsman.” (via Maud)
“Any collection of critics that leaves Laura Miller at #3 is woefully shallow.”
Books: good for film.
Speaking of books that are good for film…
Literature has its own saints.
“Movies don’t get to Iowa very quickly.” That’s putting it mildly.