Category Archives: BOX LIT (Literature)
Oxford’s Word of the Year
Britain’s media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: “omnishambles.” Oxford University Press on Tuesday crowned the … Continue reading
Guardian Wife of T.S.Eliot Dies
Valerie Eliot, who married the poet T. S. Eliot near the end of his life and steadfastly guarded his literary legacy for nearly half a century, died on Friday in … Continue reading
The New Yorker endorses Obama, TheBOX endorses none
The number one rule of journalism is to remain neutral, to not take sides and to report the facts. Since when do top news agencies, publishers and television media take … Continue reading
Martha Stewart Living to Lay Off 12% of Workforce, Cut Back Magazines
By Alexander C. Kaufman Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia began laying off employees and will cut back the printing of two magazines, the company announced Thursday. Getty Images About 12 percent … Continue reading
Nobel Prize In Literature 2012: Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins
By KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROM STOCKHOLM — Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a cause of pride for a government that had disowned … Continue reading
Einstein Letter Calling Biblical Stories ‘Pretty Childish’ to Be Auctioned on eBay
Bidding to start at $3 million. Wikimedia Commons/Rebecca J. Rosen On January 3, 1954 — one year before his death — Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Eric B. Gutkind, … Continue reading
Can We Please Stop Fifty Shades of Grey from Becoming a ‘Woman Thing’?
Lindy West As a woman, one tires of “woman things,” that canon of superficial shit that all women supposedly go Pavlovially apeshit over: chocolate, high heels, designer purses, Sex and … Continue reading
Book Review: Pete Townshend’s ‘Who I Am’ Could Be the Most Conflicted Rock Memoir of All Time
By Rob Sheffield Townshend is vulnerable and candid in a quest to explore his defects and contradictions Pete Townshend’s memoir, ‘Who I Am.’ HarperCollins Publishers Pete Townshend Who I Am HarperCollins … Continue reading
Oh To Hell With It: Jennifer Aniston Nude
By Roy Edroso “Stars naked on covers may sell magazines,” asks the Daily News, “but can it still stir up controversy?” They meant to ask, “Can it still get you … Continue reading
‘Night Moves’ Director Kelly Reichardt, Producers, UTA Sued By Edward Pressman & Edward Abbey Widow For Copyright Infringement
By DOMINIC PATTEN Night Moves might be stopped before it is even started. In a copyright infringement civil suit (read it here) filed Thursday, Edward R. Pressman Film and Clarke … Continue reading
KISS’s Ace Frehley is Writing Another Book
By Michael Leonard Former KISS man Ace Frehley is writing the second part of his life story. Frehley is not only recording a brand new studio album, but he’s writing … Continue reading
The Best New Books for the Week of July 23, 2012
This week, the new Tana French novel, a razor-sharp serial killer thriller, and a memoir from Winston Churchill’s daughter. Plus: inside the Wall Street bailout. Bailout: An Inside Account of How … Continue reading
