Earlier this week, novelist Charlaine Harris confirmed on Facebook that the next installment in her bestselling Southern Vampire Mysteries series will be the last. The basis for HBO’s hit show True Blood, the books have come out every year since the first, Dead Until Dark,…
In a Salon essay Alec Nevala-Lee suggests that a New Yorker profile may actually be a curse for Hollywood’s biggest talent, such that “whenever a New Yorker profile shows a director hard at work in the editing room, the studio should start to worry.” The…
Following in the footsteps of celebrity hoteliers Jimmy Buffett, David Copperfield, and Olivia Newton-John, the entrepreneurial folks minding Ernest Hemingway’s estate have entered a global agreement with developers to build a chain of luxury hotels across the globe. The idea is that Hemingway’s lifestyle — the…
Alexander Nazaryan at the Daily News (New York — not L.A. or Galveston) has compiled a list of neologisms, taken from the online Urban Dictionary, all derived from the names of famous authors. “They represent the history of literature as seen by millions of 17-year-olds today,” he…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced plans to transport its hit musical Matilda, based on the classic Roald Dahl novel, to New York early next year. Dahl’s beloved children story centers on a precocious young girl who discovers telekinetic powers and uses them to get revenge…
Words was oh such a twitch-tickling problem to the BFG. He knew exactly what words he was wanting to say, but somehow or other they was always getting squiff-squiddled around. And we can only assume that the same was true of Walter “Wally” Saunders, the…
Or actually, to be more exact, her assistant posted the review for her. (Via The Poetry Foundation) Here it is: Assuming these are actually her words, Glück’s Yelp shares with her poetry a passion for clean and glittering things. Here’s a stanza from her poem ”A Summer Garden”: Freshly polished…
On days when the unending visual onslaught of urban life begins to feel overwhelming, some of us (we are probably all artists or designers) bemoan the state of our culture or wish to live in a place like São Paulo, where nearly all public signage…
Nabokov admired one. Chekhov cuddled with one. E.B. White wrote poetry to them. Gary Shteyngart tweets about one. (Also: Warhol had two. Picasso drew one.) At The New York Daily News‘s Page Views blog, Alexander Nazaryan makes an inspired case that “no dog has been more widely loved…
What’s in a name? If the Best American Poetry blog is to be believed, the key to success in the presidential elections. In 2008 the blog proposed a ‘Trochaic Theory’, predicting Barack Obama‘s victory on the basis of the cadence of his name: Barack (an…
