Jeff Sharlet edits The Revealer, a website that I find pretty much essential; it covers religion in media, and its perspective is unlike anything else out there, I’d say. Sharlet now has a blog; one entry of said blog focuses on the issues of Daredevil written by Ann Nocenti. These floored me when I was … Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
This Martin Amis q & a would qualify as illuminating. Amis on Bellow is always worth a read — hell, Amis on most anything is — and there’s a Bellow question in here. (via & via) Christopher Hitchens also comes up; this essay of his on the current state of affairs in Iraq is also … Continue reading
January 9, 2007, Author: , Leave a comment
speaking as a fan of, y’know, books, this worries me.
Categories: BooksVia Boing Boing, this piece on the recent Publishers Group West bankruptcy could be described as chilling. Yeah, actually. It’s chilling. If you’re a fan of the work of independent publishers, especially. Edward Champion’s coverage is also worth a read.