“The Case For James Frey: On His Imminent…And Needed…Reemergence”
I’m about to state what is probably going to at first be a semi- (very?) unpopular opinion. Here goes:
I think that James Frey is the best thing to happen to the Lit-World in years. There, I said it. Start your self-righteous clamoring for justice, truth, and […]
Couple things before I get to the Weekly Wrap:
Thanks to those who pointed out that the link to Green-Hand singing Bob Dylan was broken. It’s all fixed now.
And did someone ask how Steve the greyhound is doing?
He’s feeling pretty relaxed these days. Thanks for asking.
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I was thinking, since we focused on a kids’ book this […]
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS comes to THE END
My son, Bach-Boy Henderson is a big fan of A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, and when I told him he could interview Lemony Snicket, he was determined to get the author to reveal secrets from the thirteenth and final book from the series.
Here are 13 […]
Will anyone here admit to using an alias? Tell me why you do it, or why you considered it, or why you’re dead-set against it.
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If you Google the name “Lemony Snicket,” you’ll quickly come across the story of why the author chose to use an alias. The story is this (according to Wikipedia):
Daniel Handler […]
Authors Lauren Baratz-Logsted and Stephanie Lessing discuss Chick-Lit and more.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted: Your new book, MISS UNDERSTANDING, is a sequel to your first novel, SHE’S GOT ISSUES. Did you originally plan to write a sequel? If not, how did that come about?
Stephanie Lessing: Oddly enough, I wrote MISS UNDERSTANDING first, but I didn’t originally write […]
I once had a crush on a boy at my pool named Win. He was several years older than me. I was eight. And I wrote him a note containing a long piece of blue yarn. I told him I loved him and as a sign of my love I’d be wearing a piece of […]
McSWEENEY’S Kevin Dolgin interviews Bruce Benderson.
Bruce Benderson has spent the last twenty years or so building a reputation as an underground writer; a voice from the gay scene in New York. He has been particularly successful in France, where he won the Prix de Flore in 2004 for his memoir “The Romanian“, the story […]
Are you, or have you ever been, obsessed? Tell me your story.
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Bruce Benderson is the author of THE ROMANIAN, a memoir of his obsessive love affair with a poor Romanian, interspersed with recounts of his New York visits with his dying mother.
Last spring, Bruce and I tried to find a time to meet for an […]
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