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A vanload of saliva pulls into Brooklyn
The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is an enthusiastic tweeter. He often prompts his followers to play games like "Literary Smackdowns" (Joan Didion vs. Susan Sontag, for example), and today he started a new one: blasting Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook deactivated Rushdie's page, thinking it ... More >>
Joan Didion talks with Sloane Crosley
A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'
Though reporters are still missing, being killed and deported across Syria, Libya.html and the upheaved Middle East, there was some cause for celebration among the media today as the four missing New York Times journalists came home to a hero's welcome. The group has already detailed the brut ... More >>
"Lil Wayne is free. I am on the cover of the la weekly. Life is pretty alright," tweeted Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino earlier today, and indeed, her face is proudly plastered over our sister paper's front page this week, under the combative legend: "The West Is The Best." Debatable! But the ... More >>
I'm not trying to make something cute out of the tragic death of Natasha Richardson, the fine actress who died after a skiing accident last year. But there have definitely been some creepy coincidences about the aftermath of her passing. Mama Vanessa Redgrave promptly canceled out of schedu ... More >>
Join us as we leaf through the finest the publishing world had to offer
Prolific, though. FSG puts out a big, fat book of the noted writer's stories.
Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)
Junkie love in New York's classic shoot-'em-up
The perfect place to meet that special bibliophile
Ringtone-rap titan unleashes a blaring but robotic debut
Pushing ballet along adventurous paths
Recommendations by R.C. Baker
Not trash exactly, but certainly heavily recycled.
Not only in Lady Chatterley, but also in Lake's and Polley's latest. (And even a role for tiny me.)
Conor Oberst finally emulates the greats by mixing brilliance with bloated bumbling
My tour of modern Grease. Plus a celebulecture and a swashbuckled queen or two or three.
Joan Didion's stages of mourning
One good choice: Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet's final collaboration
My so-called life: the workshop
Our 25 favorite books of the yearfrom teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists
After Johnand Quintana: Joan Didion grapples with grief in a new book of common prayer
Where I Was From Finds Native Daughter Joan Didion Slouching Toward California Again
Aliens Invade New York
