Abysmal alliteration author admired again
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For literature fans, it is the ultimate challenge -- read the world's worst novelist out loud for as long as possible without laughing.
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The author of 'Musicophilia' and 'Awakenings' chats about what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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The same word keeps escaping from Brian Urlacher. Over and over and over again.
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One of the most compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new century belongs to Augusten Burroughs. A former ad writer and recovering alcoholic, he sprang to prominence with his 2002 memoir, Running With Scissors. It detailed a childhood so bizarre that some people insist it must contain elements of fiction.
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Once more, tribute was paid to Edgar Allan Poe, poet and master of horror.
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Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author.
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Viewpoint: Author Germaine Greer stirs up a storm with her criticism of Steve Irwin as vulgar and self-delusional. But she fails to understand his Aussie boisterousness and  his efforts to protect animal habitat
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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Barking, repressive, unworkable ideas are clearly catching
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.
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Many people are asking The New Republic about the identity of the author of a number of articles attributed to an American soldier in Baghdad.
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the spirit of the late Finnish architect-designer Alvar Aalto is drowning in praise.
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Eliot Weinberger, a previous finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, set off a stir by saying that one of this year's nominees, Bruce Bawer, had engaged in âracism as criticism.â
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How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
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Did you hear the one about the gubernatorial candidate up for a literary prize?
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Tycho:  Page Two of "In The Service Of The Queen" will be available shortly, as he's taking the process very seriously.  Writing ridiculous poems used to be something I did with much more frequency, though it still happens occasionally. I did, at one point, seize the entire site to host a comic musical about TRON.  The urge just rears up sometimes, swiping at the air with its claws, and I must feed it tender, rhyming couplets to bed it back down.