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Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
Writer, analyst, and eloquent opinionator Gore Vidal died today. He was 86. The LA Times reports that he died Tuesday in his Hollywood Hills home, from complications related to pneumonia. In his...
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David Rakoff, 1964-2012
David Rakoff, best known as a storyteller, author, and a regular contributor to the radio programs "This American Life" and "Fresh Air," has died of cancer. The news first appeared on the website...
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Elmore Leonard, RIP
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard, a master of modern noir, died today. He was 87. From his 2001 essay, "Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle,"that appeared in the New York...
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New Disruptors 65: Made from Scratch with Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137997684" params="auto_play=false&show_artwork=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin founded...
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Conversations with Matt Dwyer
The internet calls it the golden age of audio podcasts. (more…)
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Florida Man crowned winner of 2015 Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest
[caption id="attachment_409199" align="alignnone" width="650"] Charlie Boice beams after winning the 2015 "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla. (Andy Newman/Florida...
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Umberto Eco, 1932-2016
Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, writer and semiotics professor, is dead at 84, reports the BBC. Eco is most famous as the author of elaborate historical novels such as The Name of the Rose and...
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Australian TV host disgusted at Daily Mail's misogyny
Karl Stefanovic: "The Daily Mail has a long, despicable track record of denigrating women, of ridiculing women, of objectifying women." A London tabloid, the Daily Mail has become wildly successful on...
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RIP Kate Wilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop
Kate Wilhelm, author of many of science fiction's seminal books and stories (e.g. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang), would have been a titan in the field if she had only written; but Wilhelm's...
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Interview with Daniel Mallory Ortberg
One of my favorite writers has a new book out and was interviewed by The Cut. He talkes about his transition, gender identity, bylines, and the new context of his past work.
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Tom Wolfe, pioneering "New Journalist" and novelist, RIP
Tom Wolfe, the highly influential journalist at Rolling Stone and Esquire and author of such fantastic works as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has...
View ArticleThe New York Public Library's curious collection of authors' personal items
From Gareth Smit's article in The New Yorker: The Berg Collection’s roughly two thousand linear feet of manuscripts and archival materials were donated to the library, in 1940, by two brothers, Henry...
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Inside Roald Dahl's backyard writing "hut"
"It may not be pretty or tidy, and it certainly hasn't been cleaned and the floor hasn't been swept for five years at least..." In this 1982 interview, Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach...
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Patti Smith has a new memoir on the way
The inimitable Patti Smith will release a new memoir, Year of the Monkey, on September 24. A blend of reality and dreams, illustrated with Smith's Polaroids, the book captures her experience of a...
View ArticleFor rent on Airbnb: Hunter S. Thompson's Woody Creek guest cabin
Now on Airbnb: gonzo journalism master Hunter S. Thompson's guest cabin on his infamous Owl Farm compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. Eventually, the late writer's wife Anita intends to turn the...
View ArticleCormac McCarthy on how to write a scientific (or any kind of) paper
For twenty years, novelist Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country for Old Men) has been an unofficial "editor-at-large" for the Sante Fe Institute, where he is a trustee. McCarthy has helped numerous...
View ArticleMonty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury...
Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones who died last month was also a scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, having penned two books about the great English poet. Before Jones's death, he...
View ArticleWhat's in author Richard Kadrey's bag?
Richard Kadrey is a novelist and screenwriter living in San Francisco. His books include Sandman Slim, The Everything Box, Butcher Bird, and the forthcoming, Ballistic Kiss. Cool Tools asked him to...
View ArticleRay Bradbury's captivating explanation of his Mr. Electrico character's...
As Ray Bradbury fans know, there's a curious minor character named Mr. Electrico who turns up in his creeptastic 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury always insisted Mr. Electrico was...
View ArticlePodcast interview Maureen Herman, former bassist of Babes in Toyland
I really enjoyed this episode of Coffee or Suicide with my friend Maureen Herman. She was the bassist for Babes in Toyland, and is a writer and a frequent contributor to Boing Boing. In this episode,...
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