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Tao Lin Will Have Megan Boyle’s Hand in Marriage
The Observer was sitting at his desk on Saturday afternoon. He clicked the tab for Twitter on his Web browser. Five Tweets down on his Timeline he saw a Tweet by @Beach_Sloth that read,...
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The Great Gatsby in 3D: An Idea So Abysmally Awful It Just Might Work?
Those familiar with director Baz Luhrmann's fixation with excess had every reason to look forward to his upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Sure, the subtle analysis of class warfare, sexuality,...
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Galassi, Jong, and Schlossberg Fête Literary Lights at Capitale
Last night, Poets & Writers hosted its annual benefit dinner in honor of Farrar, Straus and Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi, poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and authors John Grisham and Elizabeth...
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Dead Author Breeds Big Business: The David Foster Wallace Industry
When David Foster Wallace hanged himself with a black belt and his arms bound by duct tape on the patio of his home in Claremont, Calif., on Sept. 12, 2008, he had published a history of the concept of...
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We Get Pitches: Masseuse to the Stars Wrote a Memoir
Must-read. The Observer receives pitches for various concepts and products and events during its busy days. But rarely have we received a pitch for reviewing a book more compelling--if less...
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Alexandra Lebenthal’s Book Optioned By Sony
Recessionista. (Getty Images) Socialite Alexandra Lebenthal's book The Recessionistas has been optioned by Sony for potential production: Ms. Lebenthal tells Page Six that she hopes Gwyneth Paltrow,...
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Jeffrey Eugenides Tries to Reinvent the Marriage Plot
Every novel by Jeffrey Eugenides reads as if it were repudiating the one that came before. His second book, Middlesex, published nine years after his first, was a sprawling, intergenerational tale told...
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Anonymous Gives the Mystery of Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays A Very Good Name
Spall. Who really wrote William Shakespeare’s plays? Theories abound as scholars, dramaturges and researchers have accused the Bard of Avon of perpetrating a massive hoax through the centuries and...
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The Oral History of the Oral History of Oral Histories
(Photo Illo: Pawns) When, earlier this month, The Daily published Michaelangelo Matos's oral history of oral histories, some observers thought our society had reached the final destination in...
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Read It and Whine! Writers Don’t Need Prizes, They Need Ideas
Photo by Ricardo Barros Woe betide our republic of letters! The shadowy culture arbiters who serve on the Pulitzer Prize board have withheld their favor from the field of American novels published in...
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