RIP Curtis Hanson, writer/director of masterful literary adaptations
The director of some of the finest literary adaptations in recent memory has died. Curtis Hanson, whose directorial efforts included L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys, died of natural causes on September 20, 2016… Read more »
Amazon is sparing at least one Hachette author: Paul Ryan. Why?
When you read David Streitfeld’s “Literary Lions” piece in The New York Times early this week, you may have noticed certain little aside before Salon and the Huffington Post jumped on… Read more »
@GSElevator is going down: Touchstone cancels parody account’s book deal
Alex Shephard: Hi Dustin! Read any good parody Twitter accounts lately? I know that you are a big fan of parody Twitter accounts and are always complaining that there aren’t… Read more »
@GSElevator not really @GS, not really in an elevator
@GSElevator, the Twitter account purportedly belonging to an anonymous Goldman Sachs banker who posted snippets overheard in the office elevator, was a social media success story. The tweets could be… Read more »