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Jacob Two-Two, too

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From The Globe and Mail: Jacob Two-Two, one of the late Mordecai Richler's most famous characters, could be forgiven if he felt uncomfortable with being immortalized in a trilogy. After all, he's two plus two ... Read More »

August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Punctuation cage match

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Herman Melville was for them; Raymond Chandler was against. Donald Barthelme thought they were ugly as a tick on a dog's belly. His contemporary, Kurt Vonnegut, called them transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. Yet another ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Rycroft in her own words

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As Quillblog recently reported, Nicole Rycroft, the executive director of Markets Initiative, took part in a pro-Tibetan demonstration late last week wherein she and four others spread a banner that read "Free Tibet" over an ... Read More »

August 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Lessons from Jeff Bezos

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The McSweeney's blog recently posted a "short imagined monologue" from the mind of Jeff Bezos (as imagined by contributor Evan Johnston). We meet Bezos in the waiting room at his doctor's office, where he's waiting ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news