fact checking is for losers
or so it seems. Howard Kurtz talks about the naked-women-in-paintball-games hoax and how major media screwed up.
or so it seems. Howard Kurtz talks about the naked-women-in-paintball-games hoax and how major media screwed up.
Louisa Young writes about her brief reign as the “next J.K. Rowling.”
Amy Tan has contracted Lyme Disease, says the Washington Post is this atrociously titled article. Symptoms include fatigue, memory loss, and “dropping first letters of words when writing by hand and replacing words with similar-sounding gibberish when speaking.” What a nightmare.
This summer, the Guardian is publishing a bunch of new short stories by famous authors. Dave Eggers made the list this weekend, with “Something Might Plummet, Something Might Soar” and it starts like this:
“Mrs Gunderson. Whahaooaoooa. Mrs Gunderson. This is about Mrs Gunderson and it gets dirty. ”
Read the entire story here.
The BBC is asking different writers to talk about the city they live in, the fiction it has produced, and literary works set there. Aleksandar Hemon talks about Sarajevo. The program also includes Orhan Pamuk on Istanbul and Zadie Smith on London.
The AP reports that George Plimpton is writing a memoir, due out in 2006 by Little, Brown. He’ll have a lot of ground to cover: his attempts at sports, his friendships with literary and political legends, those rumors about the Paris Review being a CIA cover, etc. Well, maybe he won’t cover that last one. Still, should be interesting.