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Nick Cave and the Bad Sex

No, the title isn't a typo! Believe it or not, Nick Cave has been nominated for the 17th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the Literary Review magazine for his book " The Death of Bunny Munro ". Other nominees include Philip Roth and Paul Theroux , whilst Tom Wolfe , Melvyn Bragg and Sebastian Faulks are all past winners! The award was set up by Auberon Waugh to "draw attention...

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"Do It Again."

Tom Wolfe recalls a dinner with Hunter S. Thompson .

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Bear Market Victory

Bear Market Victory Losing money still isn't a crime. Bad judgment is still not illegal. That was the message from Tuesday's acquittal of two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of securities fraud amid last year's subprime meltdown. The verdict was a welcome rejection of the political class's banker baiting, which seems to have infected the Justice Department. The Wall Street trial had become...

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The daily steal: Tom Wolfe novel, $18

Welcome to the Daily Steal, our editors’ picks for the best deals in fashion, beauty, culture and health. Yes, I’m a terrible reader. What can I say? I was raised watching music videos and I’m a Gemini. But these days, I long for my daily commute just so I can delve into Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book [...]

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Wendy James Records Track With The Scare

Yesterday Pedestrian had the pleasure of chatting to former Transvision Vamp frontwoman, Elvis Costello collaborator and late eighties bombshell Wendy James . Look out for the full video interview soon but for now Pedestrian can reveal that James' new solo record will include a track recorded at Sydney’s own BJB studios with Scott Horscroft (Presets, Silverchair, Dappled Cities, The Sleepy Jackson)...

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Mad Men?

Steve Sailer writes: While Waugh wore his reactionary heart on his sleeve in Brideshead , Weiner maintains plausible deniability in Mad Men by methodically depicting how unenlightened the upper-middle class WASPs of a half century ago were. We in the audience are scandalized to note, for example, that even the most respectable parents in 1960 devoted more time to socializing with other adults than...

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Amis vs. "Two Bags of Silicone"

Amid allegations of sexism and snobbery, novelist Martin Amis has attacked Katie Price, the model-turned-author known as Jordan. Olivia Cole on London's favorite literary feud. Imagine Tom Wolfe unveiling his latest novel: I Am Anna Nicole Smith. Or...

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Book List: Five for Time and Place

Penelope Lively picks five books "that excel in depicting a particular time and place." That's an interesting criterion. Some quick additions: Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

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Three Tom Wolfe Moon T-Shirt

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Houston Street

This teaser slogan for Jonathan Parker's (Untitled) is straight out of Tom Wolfe's "The Painted Word," to wit: "Not 'seeing is believing,' you ninny, but 'believing is seeing,' for Modern Art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text." I love that Corinth Fillns believes enough in people's interest in seeing a 61-year-old Vittorio...

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Authors Unmasked

Here are the answers: Charles Dodgson [ Lewis Carroll] Alexsei Peshkov [Maxim Gorki] Publius Ovidius Nas [Ovid] Thomas Kennerly, Jr. [Tom Wolfe] Francois Marie Arouet [Voltaire] Marian Cross [George Eliot] Theodore Geisel [Dr. Seuss] Isabella Van Wagener [...]

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Sir Harold Evans Is Annoyed by ‘Condescending Head Waiters Pretending to Be English Dukes’

Name: Harold Evans Age: "Carbon dating examination in process" [Ed: 81] Neighborhood: Midtown, East Side Occupation: Editor-at-large, The Week ; author. His autobiography, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times is out November 15 from Little, Brown and Company. Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? S.J. Perelman. I hate to think I ought to add he was...

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Tom Wolfe's Upcoming Book Explores Immigration in Miami

His new novel, "Back to Blood," is set in Miami and focuses on immigration and bloodlines. It's due out in fall 2010 from Little, Brown & Co. "I kept hearing about immigration. There are a lot of great stories about how people got into this country illegally," Mr. Wolfe said in a telephone interview from his New York City office. "I was more curious about what's the life...

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The shame game

I am writing at 5.15 p.m. on Election Day. The tension and excitement are palpable. The community pulses races. Which one of the three boy mayor candidates will become the boy mayor of Pittsburgh? What about those judicial retention contests? And how can we wait to hear who has been elected to Commonwealth Court? For that matter, can the write-in candidate in Ward 2 of Sewickley borough beat the incumbent...

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This Day in Business History (Wall Street Experiences “The Great Crash”)

October 29, 1929—With a shuddering fall, the New York Stock Exchange concluded months of speculative frenzy—and strong signals that an abrupt correction was about to ensue—with a full-scale panic. With a record 16 million shares of stock sold, “The Street’s” tickers couldn’t keep pace with the ferocious trading volume. More than two decades ago, in his memorable...