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James Frey is Blogging...

by Sharon Steel | May 05, 2008
Over at Omnivoracious , hosted by Amazon.com. Only one post is up so far and it's annoyingly music-centric. Why all the flashing lights and filler for your readings, James Frey? Why can't you just get up there and, um, READ? We have grown grumpy...

Sloane Crosley Has The Career You Always Wanted

by Sharon Steel | April 14, 2008
Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley , Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped , uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring...

The Dark Side of Manners: Lady Snark's Guide to Common Discourtesy

by Sharon Steel | March 12, 2008
© Rachel McPherson You know how sometimes, someone says something that makes your face hot and your hands ball into fists of fury and your face go into perma-scowl only to realize you have let them get away with it? We do! Oh, we do, we do, WE DO! We...

Word Up Exclusive Author Q&A: Aimee Liu

by Importer | February 27, 2008
Word Up pauses from our usual coverage of literary gossip and socialite authoresses to call your attention to the fact that it's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week . As such, we are quite pleased to present you with an online-only author interview...

Intriguing Australian author alert

by Nina MacLaughlin | February 15, 2008
“The world is getting hotter, the ice caps are melting, because man keeps saying to nature, Hey, our whole idea of a cozy future is to have jobs. That’s all we’ve got planned. What’s more, we will pursue this aim at any cost, even, paradoxically, if it...

Mortified: Love is a Battlefield tomorrow at the Paradise Lounge

by Sharon Steel | February 05, 2008
In this week's fishwrap we chatted with Mortified creator David Nadelberg about social wallflowers, accidental art, and his new romance-themed anthology. It's 275 pages filled with brutally humiliating tales of love and lust and youth. We cannot...

Anne Sexton Tribute this Sunday, Nov. 18th

by Sharon Steel | November 16, 2007
From the inbox: Tribute to poet Anne Sexton Sunday, November 18th at 2 pm Don't miss our 5th annual celebration of the life and legacy of Anne Sexton, featuring readings and reminiscences by four friends and colleagues Join us for our annual tribute...

Best American Essays tonight at the Brookline Booksmith

by Sharon Steel | November 08, 2007
Editor DAVID FOSTER WALLACE lead a formidable group of contributors in a discussion of this year's answer to The Best American Essays . And tonight, Elaine Scarry, Jerald Walker, and Robert Atwan will bring their work to the reading stage. So if you've...

Video: Nick Hornby on Slam, the Sox, Tony Hawk, and Time Traveling

by Sharon Steel | October 29, 2007
Thanks to Brookline Booksmith for hosting the Nick Hornby reading Just to make sure, we decided to wait until the Curse of the Hornbino had been demolished by Your 2007 Boston Red Sox before posting the rest of Nick Hornby's Q&A at the Devotion...

Wednesday: Iron Chef Morimoto at the BU Barnes & Noble

by Importer | October 09, 2007
Masaharu Morimoto is our favorite (and always underrated - God those judges are fools) Iron Chef. He'll be making an appearance on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at the Boston University Barnes & Noble to promote his new cookbook, Morimoto: The New Art of...

Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night

by Sharon Steel | October 05, 2007
Yesterday, Pacifica Radio broadcast an uncensored version of Allen Ginsberg reading his seminal poem "HOWL." Oct 3 marked the 50th annivesary of a court ruling that determined "HOWL" was not obscene, but a work of social and literary...

Poetry Series Alert

by Sharon Steel | August 21, 2007
From the inbox: Pierre Menard Gallery on Arrow Street has offered space to Somerville-based Cervena Barva Press editor and publisher, Gloria Mindock, for a new series that will run monthly through April 2008. Mary Bonina is helping coordinate the series...

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

by Sharon Steel | August 09, 2007
Tonight! Steve Almond, Laura Dave, and editor Jenni Ferarri-Adler read from Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone . Twenty-six writers (including Nora Ephron, Ann Patchett, and Haruki Murakami) reflect...

FALL PREVIEW: Alan Alda at the JFK Library Sept 16

by Sharon Steel | August 01, 2007
Word Up has many inexplicable literary crushes: Mr. Darcy, Ira Glass, Laurie Laurence, John Galt, Walter Burns in His Girl Friday . You know. Then there's Alan Alda. Seriously, how can you not LOVE Alan Alda? Look at him! Timed to our Alda reverie...

HOWL: On the Road in Lowell

by Sharon Steel | June 18, 2007
Having taken meticulous notes and planned the novel during his cross-country travels, JACK KEROUAC wrote the first draft of On the Road in a three-week burst of creativity, taping sheets of paper together so they could run through his typewriter uninterrupted...

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