Google has finally revealed why it shut down novelist Dennis Cooper’s blog and canceled his email account earlier this summer. On his Facebook page, Cooper writes that “some unknown person's flagging of one image on a ten year-old group-curated page that wasn't even technically on my blog is the reason they disabled my blog and email account.” Late last week, Cooper announced that Google has agreed to release the decade’s worth of data and archives from his blog. Cooper’s blog—“in a new, non-Google spot”—relaunches today.
Director Harmony Korine is working on an adaptation of Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, about a middle-school teacher who seduces one of her students.
his own television channel. “Make sure that it is clearly understood my disdain for this entire vision,” Beck said.
The New York Times is searching for dedicated editors to cover education, climate change, and gender issues. The new positions will be exclusively focused on digital journalism and “independent of the department structure.”
The Village Voice has tapped Rolling Stone contributing editor (and former Voice music-section editor) Joe Levy to be its interim editor in chief.
Alan Moore spoke to Publisher’s Weekly about the origins of his new novel, Jerusalem. The 600,000 word book came out of Moore’s meditations on the hereafter. “He found various conceptions of the afterlife lacking. The conventional Christian idea ‘didn’t sound like it was quite the kind of lifestyle that I’d like to pursue for the rest of eternity,’ he says. ‘All of that golden marble, it sounded like a 1980s plasterers bathroom.’” After realizing that his life now was the ideal eternity, “he wrote an immense novel that encompasses all of his feelings for home and family. And along the way, he says, he unknowingly re-created Albert Einstein’s thinking about time and space.”
Poet Max Ritvo, known for his work in the New Yorker and elsewhere, has died at 25. Four Reincarnations, his first collection of poetry, will be published in the fall.
