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Too white! Too strong!    (2010.01.15)

Mark McGwire liked hitting the ball really fucking hard and far. But what does a white lesbian think about a gay-sports site?

Was Tara Ariano ever Canadian?    (2010.01.12)

Alleged Canadian Tara Ariano: “Your money is stupid”

‘The problem section’    (2010.01.12)

A couple of things you can leave out: “The problem section” in magazine articles; historical digressions in books

What’s your publisher done for you lately?    (2010.01.12)

According to a tendentious, borderline dishonest Jonathan Galassi, tons. And now they own your book, essentially

1 ≠ I    (2010.01.11)

It’s great that Al Gore noticed a ranging-figure 1 was hard to read. It’s hard to read because of the fake bullshit rule that acronyms have to be typeset in small caps. (Now with update you won’t bother to read)

‘Stale Roles and Tight Buns’    (2010.01.08)

“What’s almost as pointless as a bottom with nine inches uncut? A novelist with nine inches uncut”

Ben Hammersley’s useful precedent    (2010.01.07)

Ben Hammersley and I agree: Marked-up documents are rare to nonexistent in the book and magazine world

Anatomy of a literary agent’s contract    (2010.01.07)

What the first draft of one literary agent’s contract looks like

The magazine’s oppressive Adobe Caslon    (2010.01.06)

Suddenly the shittily-designed and -typeset New Yorker has an “oppressive font”