Michel Houellebecq, French novelist, and more recently, international man of mystery, has been located after failing to show up for a book tour. Turns out, he forgot.
Barry Duncan, master palindromist.
Novelist Polly Courtney has decided that she’d rather self-publish her third novel than see it marketed as chick-lit.
Slate explains why Poets & Writers’ MFA rankings are a sham; HTML Giant explains why Slate’s article is wrong.
Next week, Crown will release muckracking author Joe McGuinness’s The Rogue, his years-in-the-making Sarah Palin book that McGuinness researched by moving in next door to chez Palin in Wasilla. Not surprisingly, McGuinness, who readers may remember as a leading character in Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer, has already fallen into the media spotlight. Earlier this week, several national newspapers, including Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, and the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, refused to run a syndicated Doonesbury comic featuring text from The Rogue. Today, things got even more heated when New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin accused McGuinness of intellectual dishonesty for including thinly sourced details about Palin’s drug use and a “fetish” for black guys, and for basing his reporting on leading questions. Does all this, Libby Copeland wonders at Double XX, have the sum effect of making Sarah Palin look good?
