- No Fear for the Future has collected movie moments in which authors show up for no reason. (via Bookslut)
- Joshua Ferris hunts classic fiction for office situations.
- William Gass has won the Truman Capote Award for A Temple of Texts.
- Raymond Carver’s screenwriting career. (via Maud)
- It’s apparently TV Turnoff Week. I’d like to propose Ignoring Your Appliance Because Everybody Else is Doing It Week.
- More bad news for book coverage at the Chicago Tribune.
- James Franco has turned to writing. His first novel has the working title Who’s Your Daddy, Dafoe?
- China Miéville profile. (via Jenny D)
- Books I Wouldn’t Want to Publish.
- The L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune have slashed 250 jobs. Christ.
- In similar cost-cutting news, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel will no longer be delivering papers to delivery boxes. This is the first phase of the “Go to the Store and Get Your Own Damn Paper, You Lazy Bastard!” program that some newspapers plan to roll out in 2007.
- I had no idea that there were Dark Shadows audio adventures.
It seems that part of the “No fear for the future” post by Chris Nakashima-Brown is based on his 2004 story Prisoners of Uqbaristan, which is a piece of Borgesian fiction featuring Borges as a guest star on the Love Boat. It’s a story that Borges himself would have loved.