Sep 17, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am
It's official: Oprah Winfrey has chosen Jonathan Franzen's new novel for her book club.
Here's a trailer for Chris Lehmann's Rich People Things, which hilariously uses a scene from Fellini's La Dolce Vita (watch for the cameo from Nico).
Steve Almond takes writerly self-humiliation to glorious heights in a column for The Rumpus, in which he lampoons poems he wrote in his youth. Sample line: "The geese yank his pants with cheddar beaks."
Futurebook offers a crash course on how to use—and not use—Twitter to promote books.
The watchdog group Media Matters has examined how The Wall Street