First it was Pebble Beach, and now they want our movies. After years of bad Hollywood remakes of good Japanese movies, turnabout is fair play.
Coming to a theater near Tokyo
The Billionaire Speaks
“It’s true that when the world did not end when I predicted it would, at the end of last year, in my Netflix special Ragnarok, I realized a number of things, one of which was that I had not made a lot of professional or creative plans on the contingency that the world would continue. I just figured that it would end." Greg Hunter talks with John Hodgman at The Rumpus.
Profiling Edward P. Jones
The Washington Post offers a long profile of the still underappreciated Edward P. Jones. We learn he hasn't put a word of fiction to paper in four years but has been writing in his head. "'I write a lot in my head,' he says. 'I've never been driven to write things down.'" (via @keelinmc)
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Sedaris by the Sea
Recommended Reading: David Sedaris's essay about his sister Tiffany's suicide, "Now We Are Five," for The New Yorker. "How could anyone purposefully leave us, us, of all people? This is how I thought of it, for though I’ve often lost faith in myself, I’ve never lost it in my family, in my certainty that we are fundamentally better than everyone else."
The Puddlies
Powell's Books announces their Puddly Awards. Vote for your favorite book of the last decade.
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