
Onion to recent the report rules on changes grammar • Perfectly reasonable article gets mauled by scores of angry commenters. • I don’t care if you wrote it. You’re still not getting an invite. • This week’s “Martin Amis pisses someone off” article is brought to you by Anna Ford. • The incredible true story [...]
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The Well and the Mine Gin Phillips Year: 2009 Pages: 288 In 1930s America, everyone is suffering through the effects of The Great Depression. Coal mining towns like Carbon Hill, Alabama are no exception. And from this bleak and austere setting comes a surprisingly gentle story about poverty and racism in Gin Phillips’ debut novel [...]
Hunter S. Thompson just bought a new AV system. And he’s not happy. Really… not… happy… • “Literary biopics usually cater to the fantasy that writers are drunk, mad, sex-obsessed geniuses inspired by the holy spirit (50% proof)…. (But) the problem is, writers’ lives don’t always make for great cinema. If writers are any good, [...]
Ricky Gervais suspects ‘Flanimal Rights’ movement of stealing thousands of copies of his latest book – thankfully leading to this hilarious interview! • The nominees for the 1970 Booker Prize have been announced. No, that isn’t a typo. • “Abandon all hope ye who enter the secret code to Level 9.” Dante’s Inferno is now [...]
Billy T: The Life and Times of Billy T. James Matt Elliott Year: 2009 Pages: 256 He was born William James Te Wehi Taitoko, but New Zealand knew and loved him as comedian and entertainer Billy T. James. For the first time since his death in 1991, comes a biography on the man famed for [...]