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"It's hard to create a sentence that uses the word 'although' in it in 140 characters," is his main beef with Twitter apparently.

Sure, HBO hasn't officially signed on for the project, but that's not stopping Dianne Weist and Chris Cooper from getting involved!

Great American Stoner Novelist Jonathan Franzen confirmed yesterday that he is indeed adapting his 2001 National Book Award-winner The Corrections into a four-season HBO series.

Possibly, yes.

Writer Elif Batuman wrote a 3,195 word essay for the Guardian

If you didn't figure it out from every other book on

President Obama has upset 9/11 responders, pissed off Rep. Charles Rangel,

This week kicks off tonight with Non-fiction night at KGB Bar (85

Wow, Gothamist takes a break to re-read The Chronicle of Narnia and

Over at Beatrice, Emily Gordon is blogging about this past weekend's New