Notes of a Defeatist

October 5th,2006, the first officially sanctioned boxing match between two published authors was thrown down. Friend of this site, Craig Davidson (author of The Fighter, Rust and Bone) challenged any writer to meet him in the ring. He was met by Michael Knox, author of Play out the Match. Produced by Ian Daffern. Edited by [...]

Jack Kerouac on the  Steve Allen Show





This will sound surprising, but before Kevin Smith made a shitty animated T.V. show out of Clerks, someone else beat him to it and made an even shittier live action version. The good news—we can’t berate Smith this time for huckstering one more needless incarnation of his register [...]

A lost world, forgery, Norse mythology, ninjas, a celebration and a murder mystery are all apart of Dustin Long’s first novel Icelander, which was published by McSweeneys earlier this year. It has been aptly called “A Nabokovian goof on Agatha Christie; a madcap mystery in the deceptive tradition of The Crying of Lot 49; The [...]

On YouTube in ten parts—Alan Moore talking comics.

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