“Ageing chimp’s own story on list for Guardian first book prize,” sez today’s Guardian. (Haven’t the Brits learned how to spell “aging” yet? Honestly.) Me Cheeta: the Autobiography is billed as the true story of Cheeta the Chimp, star of Hollywood blockbusters, told “in his own words”. The book documents the life and times of… Continue reading »
Archives for August 2008
Monthly archives for August, 2008
The LOC Goes to Denver
Is there anybody who isn’t covering the Democratic convention? Even the Library of Congress has a correspondent there. She’s photog Carol M. Highsmith, and she’s been filing images (copyright-free) from the Mile-High City. She’ll be filing from Minneapolis-St. Paul, too. Highsmith has already donated a large (also copyright-free) image archive to the LOC: The online… Continue reading »
Twittering the Classics
I don’t know about you, but I have been underwhelmed by Twitter as a vehicle for political coverage. Just because everybody’s doing it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Does “twittering” sound like serious reportage to you? Twittered literature, however–now there’s an idea with legs. Call it twitlit. Maud Newton notes that, so far, we… Continue reading »
Small Wages. Bitter Cold.
No, it’s not a job in journalism. The Guardian reports that some intrepid Brits are looking for a hardy soul to accompany them to the South Pole in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition: A hundred years after the appearance of one of the strangest and least enticing advertisements in newspaper… Continue reading »
Enough of This Anecdotage!
During my stint as a contributing editor at Book World, the phrase “minor novelist” used to get thrown around once in a while. I always hated it: It’s patronizing, and it’s almost always used by people who will never get around to writing a novel at all. (Though of course if they did it would… Continue reading »
