Posted 06/17/09 in Vulture
All for Pagus!!!
More Thrizzling Than Usual: This Week’s Comic Features 4-Playo, the Amazing Foreplay Robot
Plus: Uncle Jimmy's Bitter, Drunken Guide to the Animal Kingdom!
Posted 06/17/09 in Vulture
Vulture Reading Room
Things Heating Up in the Vulture Reading Room
Two more pundits weigh in on Bill Wasik's 'And Then There’s This.'
Which David Foster Wallace Biography Proposal Sold and Which One Didn’t?
The answer might surprise you.
Posted 06/15/09 in Vulture
Vulture Reading Room
Vulture Reading Room Returns With And Then There᾿s This
'New York' book critic Sam Anderson has assembled an elite team of literati to discuss Bill Wasik’s 'And Then There’s This.'
Novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum on The Scenic Route and Life Under the Radar
"Women narrators are supposed to be likable, and my characters are not necessarily nice and/or likable. But they are funny."
Posted 06/12/09 in Vulture
How Percussion Works
New Yorker Critic James Wood Books New Gig: ‘Guest Percussionist’
On July 1, Wood will add "guest percussion" to a concert by author John Jeremiah Sullivan's band, Fayaway.
Posted 06/10/09 in Vulture
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Swamp Creatures and Jim Crow: Comics Excerpt From Bayou
A fable full of dirty magic, like an Angela Carter story transplanted to the Deep South.
Adventures in Publicity: ‘Psychiatric Reports’ for Critics
We were clobbered over a feature we wrote, and now suffer from "nyctophobia"?
Posted 06/08/09 in Daily Intel
Party Lines
Bright Lights, Big City Movie Adaptation Will Leave the Eighties Behind
And author Jay McInerney is okay with that.
Exclusive Excerpt: The Muppet Show Returns, in Comic-book Form
The most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational comics excerpt we've ever run.
Sully Aces BookExpo Appearance
With the attention of more than 100 conventiongoers at stake, Sully's heroic brevity at BookExpo landed listeners safely at the five o'clock cocktail hour.
BookExpo Another (Good) Excuse to Cry, ‘The Sky Is Falling!’
The once-joyous red-letter events of the cultural calendar reduced to doom-y article ledes.
Steven Tyler ‘Rocks’ BookExpo Keynote, Confuses Chuck Klosterman
Topics included raccoon hunting, African cranes, harmonic fifths, and growing up in the Bronx with big lips.
Posted 05/28/09 in Vulture
Crusty Seamen
Nautical Adventure and Extreme Drunkenness: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From Far Arden
Pirates! Sea battles! Polar bears! Sword fights! Alluring damsels! Annoying undergrads! And a mysterious tropical island hidden in the farthest north!
Kanye No Fan of Books; Also: Please Buy His Book
"I would never want a book's autograph ... I am a proud non-reader of books."
Posted 05/21/09 in Vulture
The Comics Page
Love, Family, and the Stinky Poo Tree: Exclusive Comics Excerpt From The Color of Earth
A widow and her young daughter look for love in early-twentieth-century Korea.
Posted 05/20/09 in The Cut
The Devil Wears Chanel
Karl Lagerfeld’s Ex-Employee Calls Karl an ‘Unbelievable Narcissist’
This is supposed to be surprising?
Posted 05/18/09 in The Cut
People Who Do Nothing for a Living
Lauren Conrad’s Novel a Possibly Epic Hills Catharsis
It's based on her life on 'The Hills.' Also, why she apparently hated the show so much.
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