Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blond hair, she was talking about her career in comedy and the prospects for Central Air, the soon-to-debut left-wing talk-radio network for Read More
A few years back, Irwyn Applebaum, the president of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group and a maestro of mass-market fiction, traveled to Rancho Mirage, Calif., for a meeting at the home of Tim LaHaye, the evangelical preacher and creator of the Left Behind series. The wildly best-selling apocalyptic adventure novels involve, among other things, vivid Read More
“I’m an individual with a family and with friends, and my father is an individual with a publishing house, an agent and P.R. people. It’s invariable with that scenario the person with the bigger machine will win out in some way. But that’s something I knew when I took this on.” Jessica Hendra was on Read More
Just months after a minister accused him of fabricating quotes,
Jimmy Breslin is in hot water with a clergyman again. This time, a Roman
Catholic priest Mr. Breslin quoted-unnamed-in his most recent book says the Newsday columnist put words in his
mouth.
The Reverend Patrick Fitzgerald of Mary Immaculate Church in
Bellport, Long Island, Read More
On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street in Brookline to address members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union who attended a screening of his anti-Bush agit-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . It was his second public appearance in Boston, during a Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-"Cambridge here is not unusual. It mirrors New York and Los Angeles, or San Francisco, certainly-a lot of people hate Bush, but no one really likes Kerry. No one really feels they have a sense of who he is." That was how Martin Peretz, Cambridge resident, editor in chief of The New Republic, part-time Read More
On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street in Brookline to address members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union who attended a screening of his anti-Bush agit-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . It was his second public appearance in Boston, during a Read More
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 may have focused feverish attention on the alleged axis of evil between the Bush family and the Saudis, with inferences about their business connections drawn largely from Craig Unger’s book House of Bush, House of Saud .
But coziness with the Saudis is a bipartisan phenomenon. Once it emerged that the Read More
C HICAGO, ILL.-After several years in which the collective mood was distinctly logy, the publishing world snapped out of it at this year’s BookExpo America. A “Happy Days Are Here Again” vibe suffused the party-heavy industry convention, at which publishers gather annually to woo booksellers and schmooze each other. The festivities began Thursday with a Read More
The cardinal rule to leading a happy life is that you must never, under any circumstances, Google yourself.” Newly minted New Yorker staff writer Caitlin Flanagan-provocatrice, chronicler of contemporary domestic life, self-described anti-feminist-was speaking on the phone from her home in Los Angeles.
She was discussing what she has learned in the aftermath of her Read More
