How “Am I hot or not?” affects “Am I publishable or not?” Also, how reviewers should not rely upon Rate My Professors for biographical information.
NPR’s On The Media discusses whether Kachingle, an online service that encourages readers to donate to publications they read, can save the newspaper industry.
Michiko Kakutani is not kind toward Jonathan Littell’s “The Kindly Ones”:
Indeed, the nearly 1,000-page-long novel reads as if the memoirs of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss had been rewritten by a bad imitator of Genet and de Sade, or by the warped narrator of Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho,” after repeated viewings of “The Night Porter” and “The Damned.”
If you are in New York tonight, you should be at the Pen America reading (Nathan Englander, Deborah Eisenberg). If you are in Los Angeles, you should be at the Hammer Museum listening to Joseph O’Neill of Netherland fame.
Will Hearst shut down the San Francisco Chronicle?
Rushdie critiques the movies nominated for Best Picture on Oscar night — and all in all, he’s absolutely right. (via Mediabistro)
