Sloppy Seconds: Evan Rachel Wood Goes There, We Lose Our Lunch

Emily Farris — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:07:00 GMT

Novelist John Updike is dead at 76. [AFP]

Don Draper on 30 Rock is going to give us serious sensory overload, and we're going to like it! Here's a preview: [Vulture]

Perv alert! Naked Broadway star ~~Harry Potter~~ Daniel Radcliffe invited Sasha and Malia Obama to "Hogwarts." We've not read Harry Potter so that probably sounds a lot dirtier and more grown up than it really is. [People]

Bill O'Reilly called Jessica Alba "dumb" and she did not like it. Not one bit. [Us]

News flash: Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement (from "Flight of the Conchords" for those of you who live in a cave) are not poor in real life. Did we really need a news story to tell us that? Um, apparently, we did. [Yahoo!]

21-year-old Evan Rachel Wood was spotted making out with her 56-year-old on-screen dad Mickey Rourke last night. Gag us with a lock of his greasy hair! [FOXNews]

Top 100 Books of 2008

Scanner Matt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:41:00 GMT

As always the New York Times has published their list of notable books from Dec. 2, 2007 to the present (holiday season). The list consists of the usual suspects: Updike, Roth (although we thought Indignation was great), Toni Morrison and the new generation of authors who have already written their way to modern classics and instant best sellers, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and now the seemingly unstoppable Chilean author (though new to America), Roberto Bolano.

The list consists of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. The editors at the NYTimes claim it was, "...a process that lasted many weeks and involved much good-natured dispute and the occasional sleepless night." They sound like a real wild bunch.

A few novels we think are notable from the NYTimes notables are: Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (we bet it makes the top 10), Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen and 2666 by Roberto Bolano (another top 10'er?).

We still have to catch up on our new nonfiction reading and poetry.

Here's the list, which is cuurently online and will be in print this weekend.

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