Pete's 'Today In History' Quiz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
No, the title isn't a typo! Believe it or not, Nick Cave has been nominated for the 17th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the Literary Review magazine for his book " The Death of Bunny Munro ". Other nominees include Philip Roth and Paul Theroux , whilst Tom Wolfe , Melvyn Bragg and Sebastian Faulks are all past winners! The award was set up by Auberon Waugh to "draw attention...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The financial world, for all its scandals, crashes and intrigues, has produced remarkably few good novels. Dickens and Zola in their different ways wrote about crashes, and there was of course Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Tom Wolfe recalls a dinner with Hunter S. Thompson .
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
AXTON, Va., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Col. Tom Wolfe Auctioneer & Broker (www.coltom.com) announces the auction of Turkey Cock Meadows, 238 acres in Northeast Henry County, Va., on Saturday, November 21, according to auctioneer Tom Wolfe.
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This 1962 seven-and-a-half-foot-wide Andy Warhol silkscreen 200 One-Dollar Bills was sold at Sotheby's in New York last night to an anonymous bidder for $43.8 million, three times its estimate and 100 times the $385,000 that previous owner Pauline Karpida paid for it in 1986. Its very first owner (after Warhol), art collector Robert C Scull, bought it in '62 directly from Warhol's dealer while the...
fashionmagazine.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Welcome to the Daily Steal, our editors’ picks for the best deals in fashion, beauty, culture and health. Yes, I’m a terrible reader. What can I say? I was raised watching music videos and I’m a Gemini. But these days, I long for my daily commute just so I can delve into Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book [...]
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Steve Sailer writes: While Waugh wore his reactionary heart on his sleeve in Brideshead , Weiner maintains plausible deniability in Mad Men by methodically depicting how unenlightened the upper-middle class WASPs of a half century ago were. We in the audience are scandalized to note, for example, that even the most respectable parents in 1960 devoted more time to socializing with other adults than...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Amid allegations of sexism and snobbery, novelist Martin Amis has attacked Katie Price, the model-turned-author known as Jordan. Olivia Cole on London's favorite literary feud. Imagine Tom Wolfe unveiling his latest novel: I Am Anna Nicole Smith. Or...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Penelope Lively picks five books "that excel in depicting a particular time and place." That's an interesting criterion. Some quick additions: Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
And we're done! I think.
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This teaser slogan for Jonathan Parker's (Untitled) is straight out of Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word," to wit: "Not 'seeing is believing,' you ninny, but 'believing is seeing,' for Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text." I love that Corinth Fillns believes enough in people's interest in seeing a 61-year-old Vittorio...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Here are the answers: Charles Dodgson [ Lewis Carroll] Alexsei Peshkov [Maxim Gorki] Publius Ovidius Nas [Ovid] Thomas Kennerly, Jr. [Tom Wolfe] Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] Marian Cross [George Eliot] Theodore Geisel [Dr. Seuss] Isabella Van Wagener [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Name: Harold Evans Age: "Carbon dating examination in process" [Ed: 81] Neighborhood: Midtown, East Side Occupation: Editor-at-large, The Week ; author. His autobiography, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times is out November 15 from Little, Brown and Company. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? S.J. Perelman. I hate to think I ought to add he was...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
His new novel, "Back to Blood," is set in Miami and focuses on immigration and bloodlines. It's due out in fall 2010 from Little, Brown & Co. "I kept hearing about immigration. There are a lot of great stories about how people got into this country illegally," Mr. Wolfe said in a telephone interview from his New York City office. "I was more curious about what's the life...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I am writing at 5.15 p.m. on Election Day. The tension and excitement are palpable. The community pulses races. Which one of the three boy mayor candidates will become the boy mayor of Pittsburgh? What about those judicial retention contests? And how can we wait to hear who has been elected to Commonwealth Court? For that matter, can the write-in candidate in Ward 2 of Sewickley borough beat the incumbent...
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