The latest installment of #LitBeat is up! Jerry Stahl, Tom Bissell, Krys Lee, and (Millions staff picked) Lauren Groff went head-to-head for the glory of being crowned the victor last Friday in a very special made-for-TV version of Literary Death Match in L.A.
This is a nice surprise.
On The Road With DFW
At the LA Times, Scott Esposito gives David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace a mixed review.
In Good Standing
This one goes out to all you procrastinators out there. A woman in Auckland, New Zealand has just returned a library book (Myths and Legends of Maoriland) a cool sixty-seven years late–she had "been meaning to return it" for decades. Hopefully she didn't leave any boogers.
Deals from the Crypt
Still not sure if you want to subscribe to The Coffin Factory? The magazine is offering free shipping on new subscriptions through April 1st.
“It was the perfect literary crime”
Amid recent discussion here and elsewhere about what to do about bad reviews, in the Washington Post Chris Bohjalian writes of the time he resisted the temptation to pan a book by the teacher who almost crushed his nascent literary career.
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Brief Hideous Movie
Gawker posted the first trailer for the forthcoming film version of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
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