I Love You, Beth Cooper gets movie to go with soundtrack
Larry Doyle, who has written for The Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead, is having his first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, made into a movie.... read more
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Tomeo
The reader who trudges... read more
Bill Ayers set to publish graphic-novel memoir
Bill Ayers' name became common coin during the 2008 presidential election, with Barack Obama's campaign railroaded into answering questions on his tenuous connection to the radical leftist-turned-university professor. The grim specter of this TERRORIST MENTOR dominated the political narrative for a month, and then Tina Fey turned in the defining role of her career. Ayers, clearly operating on the maxim that any publicity is good publicity, has decided to use the last of his 15 minutes to greenlight a graphic-novel adapatation of his 1993 memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.... read more
Amazon and Google make books extra portable
It looks as though you can all but throw out the library card that's been hiding behind all of the other plastic in your wallet. With the announcement of Amazon's 230,000-plus Kindle e-book titles being formatted for your cellphone, the idea of actually going to the library is one step closer to becoming completely obsolete.... read more
James Sullivan
Back when celebrities were courageous enough to talk race... read more
Patrick Swayze to write a memoir
Patrick Swayze will co-author a memoir with his wife that will chronicle his 25-year film career and his current trials with pancreatic cancer, according to People.... read more
Neil Gaiman nabs director for The Graveyard Book
On the heels of Coraline, Neil Gaiman announced recently that he's found a director for The Graveyard Book.... read more
Washington Post's Book World ends stand-alone run
The Washington Post's Sunday stand-alone book section, Book World, will come to an end and be absorbed by the paper. The last issue will be printed on Feb. 15, but Book World will remain on the Internet.... read more
Toni Morrison
It's difficult not to read Toni Morrison's latest novel outside the shadow of... read more
Marlen Haushofer
Like many kids growing up in the 1980s, I was terrified... read more
Best of 2008: It's your turn
Paste announces its 2008 Reader Survey...just in time for Feb. '09! read more
Stan Lee, Marvel, others sued for $750 million
In a sweeping lawsuit filed Monday, Stan Lee, Marvel and several others were sued for $750 million by shareholders over profits from Stan Lee Media, a comics website that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001.... read more
Louvre to feature comics for the first time
We love our comics here in the U.S. of A., but certain stereotypes have lingered about the artistic pretensions of the wine-and-cheese set across the Atlantic. Well, at long last we can congratulate ourselves on the good taste that compelled us to keep those boxes of Annie Oakley issues secreted in the attic (not to mention the handsome hardcover edition of Watchmen.) That bulwark of Western European high culture, the Louvre Museum, is at long last putting in exhibits on comics.... read more
John Updike: 1932-2009
Prolific and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike died today at age 76 of lung cancer. Updike, the author of novels, essays, collections of poems and short stories, was best known for his Rabbit series, a collection of four novels that centered around ex-high school basketball standout Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. He won a Pulitzer Prizes for Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest, among numerous awards for his other novels.... read more
Brian Raftery
I don’t do karaoke. Playing real instruments is my... read more
John Mortimer: 1923-2009
Lawyer, author and humorist John Mortimer passed away in his sleep on Friday morning at his home in Oxfordshire, England, at the age of 85. His agent, Katherine Vile, said he had been sick for some time.... read more
The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, may film soon
Somewhat substantiated news that Johnny Depp's next project is The Rum Diary means that the oft-delayed production might actually begin filming this year.... read more
Barack Obama guest-stars in Spider-Man issue #389
Tomorrow (Jan. 14), for the low price of $3.99, you can watch President-elect Barack Obama get inaugurated, be pursued by an evil doppleganger and exchange his signature fist-bump with Spider-Man. No, this isn't reality television; it's Marvel Comics Issue #389, featuring a storyline and cover dedicated to the future president.... read more
Ender's Game film adaptation, well, ends
The future of the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel Ender's Game brings to mind a Bill Paxton quote from the movie Aliens: "Game over, man! Game over!"... read more
New Tom Waits biography coming in May
When Johnny Cash passed away, the title of Coolest Man Alive fell to a former Coast Guardsman/dishwasher/nightclub singer named Thomas Alan Waits. Notoriously enigmatic with journalists, the curtain of Waits' vaudevillian persona has been pulled back ever so slightly lately with the publication Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader a few years ago and distinct traces of sincerity in interviews like this one. Now veteran journalist (and occasional Paste writer) Barney Hoskyns has a new biography on the way. Low Side of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits is due out May 19 on Broadway Books.... read more
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