At Last, Jay-Z to Reveal Lyrical Inspiration Behind ‘Izzo (H.O.V.A.)’ in New Book
Also, look out for his impending Joyce Carol Oates dis track.
Posted 07/08/09 in Vulture
Honoring the Dead
If Anyone Asks, You Read Playboy for the Unfinished Posthumous Novellas
'Playboy' has paid an outrageous sum of money for the serial rights to Vladmir Nabokov's final, unfinished novella, for some inexplicable reason.
Prepare to See This Dust Jacket Everywhere
The cover of Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' follow-up 'The Lost Symbol' has been revealed!
Posted 07/07/09 in Vulture
Book Report
Exclusive: Richistan Author Sells Riches to Rags
Sob stories from former fat cats reduced to flying commercial, handled with a blend of empathy and derision.
Posted 07/06/09 in Vulture
The Comics Page
Read Eight Pages From the ‘Masterpiece’ Graphic Novel Reviewed in This Week’s New York
An exclusive excerpt from the graphic novel of the summer, 'Asterios Polyp.'
Posted 07/02/09 in Vulture
Authors Gone Wild
Alain de Botton Is Sorry, Sort Of
If he could go back in time, he would "put this message in an envelope, not on the Internet."
Posted 06/30/09 in Vulture
Authors Gone Wild
Another Author Lets Loose Over Bad Review Via the Internet
"I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make."
Posted 06/30/09 in Vulture
Book Report
James Frey Joins Team Michael Bay
Bay reportedly paid in the "high six figures" for a Frey book about a group of alien children fallen to Earth following an attack on their home planet.
Posted 06/26/09 in Vulture
Book Report
Anderson on the Ultimate Summer Read
A web-wide book club is discussing 'Infinite Jest' from now until September.
Posted 06/25/09 in Vulture
Bad-Idea Jeans
Imagining the Worst Possible Authors for the 33 1/3 Book Series
Would you buy Tipper Gore's treatise on 'Purple Rain'?
Posted 06/25/09 in Vulture
Book Report
McNally Jackson’s Coming Book Machine Heralds Future of Publishing (Again)
Exclusive: New York's first permanent machine will be cranking out paperbacks at Soho's McNally Jackson Books.
Posted 06/24/09 in Vulture
The Comics Page
What’s Under Those Bandages? Exclusive Comics Excerpt From The Nobody
A creepy, pulpy story of small-town secrets and scientific experiments gone, natch, horribly awry.
David Fincher the Perfect Choice to Direct Movie About Similarly Charming Facebook Founder
They're both jerks! Allegedly!
Roxana Saberi, American Journo Imprisoned in Iran, Redeeming Celeb Publishing?
She spent six years studying Iran from the inside, but does she have time to write the book she needs to?
Novelist Colum McCann on Let the Great World Spin and the 9/11 ‘Grief Machine’
"I live on the Upper East Side for my sins. But the thing I’m attracted to is the edges."
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