Just read the excerpt in Vanity Fair of the new Joseph Heller biography, which includes this graf: Candida (pronounced Can-dih-duh) Donadio, who would become Heller’s new agent, was about 24 years old, Brooklyn-born, from a family of Italian immigrants. … In time, her client roster came to include some of the most prominent names in […]
Archives for July 2011
Over the Cliff With Rupe Again
Four years after posting Over the Cliff With Rupe, about Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal takeover, I think he’s beginning to resemble Wile e Coyote. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
A ‘John’ Named Nelson Algren
Annie Sprinkle led off her review of Chester Brown’s Paying For It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John by pointing out that in her “nearly 40 years in the world of sex workers,” she knew of only one person ever “to come out voluntarily — with honesty, integrity and pride –” as a “john.” […]
Obama Cultivates His Own Parcel of Dogpatch
Let’s see: Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded. Photo by Norman O. Mustill. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit