Newspaper editor Jim Bellows dies in LA at 86

Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86.

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Tom Wolfe Has New Book, New Publisher

Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co.

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Mo. Man Burns Books As Act of Protest

Tom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books.

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Astronaut Suffered 'Mental Anguish'

Anyone who's read Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" or seen the movie based on it knows about the mental and emotional stresses astronauts face as they train for space travel. But those trying to explain the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak say the pressure can be even higher for female astronauts, who not only face the same work stresses as their male counterparts but often face high expectations at home.

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Wolfe, who calls himself "the social secretary of neuroscience," often turns to current research to inform his stories and cultural commentary. His 1996 essay, "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died," raised questions about personal responsibility in the age of genetic predeterminism.

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The NYT reports: Clay Felker, a visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine, giving it energetic expression in a glossy weekly named for and devoted to the boisterous city that fascinated him — New York — died on Tuesday at his  …

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This is an interesting blog about one of my favorite authors: Tom Wolfe. Listen to the interview if you have the time.

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The shortlist for the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the most awkward description of an intimate encounter has been revealed. Harry Potter actor David Thewlis is among the authors up for the prize, given for crude and tasteless sexual depictions in published literature.

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Even Rudy Giuliani would acknowledge that he can be prickly. Now, it seems, the tough-talking former mayor is growing estranged from empirical fact.

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Carolyn See, book reviewer for the Washington Post, takes out some anguished loathing on Gonzo, The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, a new biography by Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour.

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Wall Street chroniclers one day could look back at the early 21st century and easily dub it the Era of the Hedge Fund. The question is whether it will be remembered as an age of reason or irrational exuberance.

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With bonus audio from RS 40th anniversary issue... Stewart Brand dropped LSD back in the day with Kesey, Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters while earning a mention in The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.

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Book Review: A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe reminds me of a good, focused, studious portrait artist - he can draw an excellent picture of whatever it is that he sees before him. Unfortunately, that's exactly the problem with his tome, "A Man in Full."

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Tom Wolfe's 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' approaches it's fortieth year in print, and its exploration of the narrative form is as important as its exploration of the Merry Pranksters and the genesis of the sixties hipster subculture.

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There are some good guest stars upcoming on The Simpsons.

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