Here are parts three, four, and five of Peter Robinson’s interview with author Tom Wolfe.
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Noel Sheppard found the military didn’t take kindly to Stephen King’s insult towards them.
Mark Levin responded too:
But this guy got way too into it in his response:
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National Review Online is running an interview with writer Tom Wolfe. In parts one and two Peter Robinson asks Wolfe about his latest project on immigration and the sorry state of the novel.
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Here’s some reaction to Stephen King warning students they better learn to read or they’ll end up in the army or Iraq:
Citizen Haines:
I get so tired of people trying to hate on the military by using bogus arguments such as King has…the reality is, there are a lot of smart, brilliant people in the military […]
Because I’m interested in how campaigns use the internet a long time ago I signed up for Rep. Ron Paul’s money bomb e-mail list. Since the Texas Congressman won’t be the Republican Presidential nominee this cycle the list had to find a new use. Last week, I was urged to pre-order Paul’s new book The […]
Legendary author Stephen King joins Sen. John Kerry in thinking the U.S. military is full of people who can’t read. Terry Ann Online grabbed the video. Here’s what he said to a group of young people at an event aired on C-SPAN’s BookTV Sunday 05.04.08:
I don’t want to sound like an ad–a public service ad […]
Kathryn Jean Lopez wonders why Sen. Barack Obama’s autobiography, Dreams from my Father, is in the African-American section of Barnes and Noble while Justice Clarence Thomas’ My Grandfather’s Son isn’t.
I don’t think it’s any political statement by the bookseller. I base this on eight years of working for the chain. Categorizing a book is an […]
Stuff White People Like goes from clever weblog to book deal in weeks. Publishing success for something like this is far from sure:
It will be difficult for the publisher to make a profit, said Sara Nelson, editor of Publishers Weekly. Doing some back-of-the-envelope math, she figured Random House would have to sell about 75,000 copies, […]
Back during the mild recession of 2001 I was gainfully employed at a Barnes & Noble bookstore. We knew the economic downturn was approaching and prepared by beefing up book sections and offering as wide a selection of books as we could. That seems counterintuitive since an recession means a reduction in economy activity.
That […]
Patrick McIlheran kindly linked to my post on the Hoover myth Leftists are tossing around and adds an important history book to the mix: Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man. Yes, that’s a good one. It’s still in storage and didn’t make my move to Washington, D.C. Out of sight, out of mind.
McIlheran writes,
The point is […]
Scarecrow at Firedoglake is engaging in the latest form of Bush bashing. This one involves comparing President Bush to President Hoover:
As Ian noted, with the Fed’s monetary tools stetched, we could use some fiscal policy help from Congress and the President. But as if to mock us, President George “Hoover” Bush warned business leaders that […]
Ann Coulter doesn’t care about being able to vote or not:
If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making […]
Jenna Bush’s book tour for Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope has begun:
“This is my first day, so I’m a little nervous,” the 25-year-old first daughter admitted.
Her face lit up, though, as soon as she started talking about the subject of her nonfiction narrative — a teenage mother with HIV whom she met during an […]
In the almost eight years I worked in a book store I saw many authors come in to visit. Most of the time they were in town for other events but came by my store to autograph whatever stock we had. Other times they came for a book reading. In no instance of any author […]
Fantasy author Robert Jordan died:
Author Robert Jordan, whose “Wheel of Time” series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies, has died of a rare blood disease, his aide said Monday. He was 58.
Jordan, whose real name was James Oliver Rigney Jr., died Sunday at the Medical University of South Carolina of complications from primary amyloidosis […]
