Sunday, April 24, 2011

Books: book perfume, the outer limits of book news, and then DFW

In what sort of seems as a marker of the decline of civilization, Karl Lagerfeld is developing a perfume that smells like books (Galleycat). Tina Fey, apparently forced to pre-autograph copies of her books, began writing things like, "Help, I'm stuck in a Korean Tina Fey autograph factory!"  (WritersWrite).  In other news that relates to writing by only the most slender of threads, Lady Gaga said recently of the creative process "You have to honor your vomit."  (WritersWrite again).  Salon examines this weird thing with hipster cops making repeat, unexplained appearances in comic books.

In a more serious vein, The New York Review of Books comprehensively addresses D. F. Wallace's The Pale King in the context of his other works.

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