Karen Spears Zacharias
In an entertaining, yet clear-eyed manner, Zacharias calls... read more
New York Times publishes 10 Best Books of 2008 list
Last week, The New York Times unveiled its "10 Best Books of 2008" list, and seven of the selections were published by Random House imprint Alfred A. Knopf. The sweep is not exactly surprising, as Knopf sits at the upper echelon of literary publishers; but if you take this 7/10 domination and include the ownership that came with the recent restructuring of Random House, two of the remaining three are from the Knopf/Doubleday Publishing Group. ... read more
Per Petterson
When Per Petterson emerged on the American literary scene last year... read more
Paste celebrates 10 years
On Dec. 3, 1998, Josh Jackson, Nick Purdy and Jordan Feibus launched PasteMusic.com... read more
Geoff Nicholson
Geoff Nicholson’s latest encyclopedic investigation into an ordinary... read more
Mark Barrowcliffe
Around 1975, my cousins and I invented the core element of... read more
What is Chuck Klosterman's best book to date?
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Twilight movie sets pre-release records
Being a teenager sucks. Being a teenage vampire? Now that's the sort of misery worthy of an obtusely titled album. But if you just happen to be an adolescent bloodsucker on a Washington peninsula poised to cash in on the (lucrative) intersection of J.K. Rowling and Stephen King, life is actually pretty good right now.... read more
Ben Greenman: Killing E-mail One Postcard at a Time
Ben Greenman wants you to write... read more
Chuck Klosterman writes 1,700 words on Chinese Democracy
Of the two speeches given at the Soldier's National Cemetery dedication in 1863, it's Lincoln's 272-word Gettysburg Address that far eclipses the memory of Edward Everett's 13,607-word firebrand oration from only moments earlier. The lesson? Terser formats capture attention. It's a fact we see reverberate through the many listicles of our lives. ... read more
Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself to Live going film
If the inherently morbid 6,557 mile cross-country trek in Killing Yourself to Live had one lesson for Chuck Klosterman, it was the old trope that the journey is more important than the destination. Still, the destination has been pretty nice for Klosterman; five books into his career, he's the reigning king of pop-culture addicts. He'll be adding another feather to his cap (probably a Kiss hat) soon too: Half Shell Entertainment has nabbed film production rights to Klosterman's rock memoir/romantic confessional.... read more
The Best Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books and Games of 2008
Let’s be frank: any best-of list says more about the people who assembled it than it does about a particular year... read more
Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year
For the second consecutive year, Paste asked a constellation of authors to share with us the books they admired most in the past year. We offer their thoughts, musings and endorsements with no further prologue—after all, you’ve got some reading to do. ... read more
Niall Edworthy and Petra Cramsie
There is the angelic. And there is the... read more
Patton Oswalt is writing a book
Like most of us, Patton Oswalt had his head in the election last week. He was a live blogger for Comedy Central Indecision, and he also turned his attention to the future of the ill-fated Republican nominee. “McCain, someday, is going to make a great novel,” he wrote on his website. “He doesn't want to be a part of it, but it’ll be one of the most readable things to come out of this dark spiral we’ve been going through for eight years." ... read more
Eugene Mirman has an album and a book on the way
Eugene Mirman, poster boy for absurdist comedy, is nothing if not prolific. After working with Stella, 236.com, and Modest Mouse (to name a few,) Messr. Mirman plans to expand his ouevre with a book and follow-up album.... read more
Spiral Stairs, Wrens, many more contribute to Lifted Brow
Those crazy kids at The Lifted Brow are winding down their buzz-worthy multimedia project. After the announcement of their "Fake Bookshelf" project earlier this year, the Australia-based zine has (finally!) announced pre-orders for the issue, due out Jan. 17.... read more
Dead Celebrity Author of the Month: Roberto Bolaño
Poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño wrote about strangulations, stabbings, rapes, drug deals, pistol-whippings and love gone wrong... read more
Patton Oswalt lusts for John McCain book, blogs election
Patton Oswalt is known for his comedy, not his politics. But on his website last week, the Comedians of Comedy founder noticed, perhaps presciently (and with a surprisingly small amount of tongue in his cheek), the subject of America's next great political novel: John McCain. ... read more
Sam Mendes is a Preacher man
As close as a Preacher film has been to getting made, it's always seemed like a prayer that would never be answered. It's not that the cross-country, nihilistic, confrontational comic book couldn't be filmed, but more that given its content, a studio would have to be pretty insane to throw up the kind of money it would take to do it right. But then, the same thing was said about Watchmen, a similarly dense and literate comic, so who's to say what gets greenlighted these days. ... read more
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