Michael Chabon’s New Book is Going Way Multi-Media

This is either the greatest idea of the season or the biggest hooey in years. Thoughts?

Harper Plans Enhanced E-Book for Michael Chabon’s Novel – by Barbara Chai read article

15 Writers to Hate

…Eh, excuse us, we should’ve said “authors.” That’s what Forbes calls these wordsmiths, who are making way too much dinero to care what they’re called, other than, maybe, “Sir:”

James Patterson made HOW much last year? 94 million bucks? And we’ve never read one word of his? Wow.

Forbes’ 15 Highest Earning Authors List – by Zoe Triska

Yesterday, Forbes released their annual list of the world’s highest earning authors. read article

A Lesson in the Creative Side of TV Production

Actually, every side of TV production is creative. Except network meetings, that is:

An oldie but a goodie

Comedy 101 by Ken Levine

Haven’t done this in awhile but several of you have requested it. Today I’ll show an episode of our CBS show ALMOST PERFECT and tomorrow I’ll walk you through the thought process on how we broke the story and why we made the decisions we made. read article

We Wondered What Happened to the Doctor Puppet

Damn, it’s good to see you again:

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been cooped up in the apartment helping Alisa make art and watching the Olympics. I’m so happy for Team GB and Team USA! After seeing all the amazing feats of sportsmanship I was afraid my legs would atrophy, so I went for a walk in Prospect Park. I went a little deeper into the woods than I’ve ever been before, and even found a waterfall.

Post DEADWOOD Modernism in Contemporary TV

Hey, that sounds pretty intellectual, huh? Just our way of honor this pretty damn intellectual article. We think we’d agree with it too…if we were sure of what it says:

It’s Deadwood‘s World. BossCopper, and Hell on Wheels Are Just Living In It – by Matt Zoller Seitz read article