Secret project pushed back

The release date for the secret project (see teaser, right) has been pushed back to 2008. It’ll be worth the wait, though.

Subjects: aw

Beat Takeshi

Forgot to post this over the weekend. From my friend Phil:

Beat Takeshi would just shoot Chuck Norris’ ass.
Twice.
Then paint a surrealist portrait.
Write a book about the experience
of painting a surrealist portrait.
Shoot a movie about an old woman and a biker’s
experience with sea-slugs.
And compose a fart joke that would take 2 hours to tell.
And it would […]

The Dan Brown court case

From the Guardian:
A high court judge today rejected claims that Dan Brown’s bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code breached the copyright of an earlier book.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had sued publishers Random House claiming that Mr Brown’s book “appropriated the architecture” of their book, The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail, which was published […]

best short story award (online)

storySouth / best short story award
online fiction
Subjects: awards, online, fiction

Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile - Sunday Times - Times Online

Publishers toss Booker winners into the reject pile - Sunday Times - Times Online

THEY can’t judge a book without its cover. Publishers and agents have rejected two Booker prize-winning novels submitted as works by aspiring authors.
One of the books considered unworthy by the publishing industry was by V S Naipaul, one of Britain’s greatest living […]

Philip Roth Honored in Newark Neighborhood - Yahoo! News

Philip Roth Honored in Newark Neighborhood - Yahoo! News

NEWARK, N.J. - Philip Roth has been honored in his hometown of Newark, which has served as the setting for many of his 26 books.
Roth, whose “American Pastoral” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997, was greeted at his childhood home by 75 fans who […]