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
Michael Azerrad to help pen Bob Mould's autobiography
Few capture the essence of the essence of the Renaissance man as well as Hüsker Dü frontman-turned-soloist-turned-professional wrestler-turned nightclub owner Bob Mould. Chronicling a life story like that ain't chump change, so it's a good thing he recently tapped Michael Azerrad to help him write his autobiography.... read more
Artist publishes Stephen King character's novel
Does reading an entire book consisting only of the words, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" sound like a good time? If so, boy does Phil Buehler have a book for you! An artist and fan of the Stephen King's work The Shining, Buehler has self-published the lost manuscript from the character Jack Torrance, the obsessed writer who slowly goes insane while holed up in the Overlook Hotel.... read more
Jim Steinmeyer
Rains of frogs and rains of fish and strange spacecraft and spontaneous... read more
Ernest Hemingway's Cuban archives released
Ernest Hemingway’s archives, compiled during the Nobel-winning author’s 21-year residence in Cuba, were reportedly made available to scholars on Monday. The documents were stored in the basement of his home near Havana surviving decades of humidity and insects and are currently being restored and digitized by Cuban conservationists.... read more
Paste presents An Indie Rock Alphabet Book
We're proud to announce Paste's first foray into book publishing... read more
Nami Mun
Contemporary American novels often feel like extended short stories; notes for bigger books... read more
John Niven
While No Doubt and Oasis were climbing the charts... read more
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?
Vote in PasteMagazine.com's latest poll...... read more
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
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