Curbed Enthusiasm: TFT Review of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places by Sharon Zukin

A writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has scored an interview with the uber-reclusive Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes. The interview is very short, but it is the first time Watterson has been interviewed in over 20 years. He stopped doing the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip 15…

In September 2010, Bob Dylan’s classic song “Man Gave Names to All the Animals” will be the source material for a children’s book. Artist Jim Arnosky, a recipient of the lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Science Illustration, will create the artwork.

According to Sterling’s press…

Padgett Powell has taught writing at UF since 1984. He has published five novels and two collections of short stories–his latest, the novel The Interrogative Mood (Ecco) His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Paris Review, Grand Street, Esquire, The New York…

BIG UPDATE (01/31):

48 hours later Amazon has reversed its decision and agreed to Macmillan’s pricing plans. Read the full post on that here.

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ORIGINAL POST:

If you woke up this morning and tried to order any of the  countless Macmillan titles on Amazon you were out of luck. In the…

It has been a little over a year since David Foster Wallace tragically took his own life. Wallace was a brilliant writer and important voice in American life. I think we are still feeling his loss. However, we still have some final writing of his to look forward to, particularly the novel he…

A Los Angeles Times article revealed that Conde Nast Publications, Hearst Corp., Meredith Corp., News Corp. and Time Inc. have joined forces to develop an online storefront to sell “…full-color, interactive digital versions of their newspapers and magazines that would be readable on…

Ever since Chesley Sullenberger landed a U.S. Airways plane in the Hudson River, the man has gotten plenty of attention. Here’s my favorite Sully moment: in mid-October, he was…