So the stock market was down 777 points yesterday, up more than 500 points today, it looks as though Congress may get some form of a deal through, and all of your hard-earned cash might not turn into confetti. Yay! Thanks in large part to McCain’s wildly erratic behavior and serious wonkiness (who stands up [...]
Via Happy Booker: Ayelet Waldman has a vision. It’s a vision that I know many of us share. Read it here. If you’re an author, you can get on board by donating signed copies of your books to Books4Barack, which has already raised $40,000 for Obama. The response to the basket of books has been [...]
On the same day that a new ABC-Washington Post Poll revealed that Obama’s lead has widened considerably during the financial crisis, McCain has asked to have Friday night’s presidential debate at Ole Miss delayed. He says he wants to get to Washington to work on the financial crisis, but if one looks at everything he [...]
Oh, how I love the blogs. But this has to be one of my favorites. Someone from Seattle, liveblogging during his Manhattan interlude, waxes poetic about a moment on a train with a tall blonde Nordic goddess. And guess what the stunning mama-to-be is reading!
I realize that, were I still looking for romance, the fact [...]
Stop by the Booksmith booth at the Cole Valley Street Fair in San Francisco today. My pal Andrew Foster Altschul (Lady Lazarus) and I will be there from noon to one, chatting about literary fiction (or whatever else you want to talk about) and recommending great books.
Where: Cole Street between Carl and Grattan
N Judah [...]
Barack Obama has released a 2-minute video about our current economic crisis. No bells and whistles here. No expansive shots with rousing music and cheering crowds. It’s just Obama, talking about what’s wrong with our economy and what he plans to do to turn things around. This is a smart man with an intelligent plan. [...]
I’ll be talking with Paul Auster tonight at City Arts and Lectures. Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m.
After this reader-submitted photo was published in the Anchorage Daily News, featuring Sarah Palin surrounded by high school boys and possibly flashing the peace sign, the McCain campaign released this strong statement:
The left-wing liberal news media seeks to belittle Sarah Palin’s character by implying that she was exhibiting the peace sign. In fact, she was [...]
In an obituary by Bruce Weber in the New York Times today, David Foster Wallace’s father, James Wallace, talks about his late son’s long battle with depression.
His father said Sunday that Mr. Wallace had been taking medication for depression for 20 years and that it had allowed his son to be productive. It was something [...]
David Foster Wallace was found dead in his home last night from an apparent suicide by hanging. (See previous post).
For interviews and other links about the work of David Foster Wallace, who won a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1997 and published an impressive and critically acclaimed body of work, see Saturday’s post. Read yesterday’s New [...]
