Omni Daily News
Goodbye, P-I: The big local news here in Seattle today is the final print edition (after 163 years) of our oldest daily newspaper, the Post-Intelligencer. Longtime P-I book critic John Marshall sums up his "faves and flops" from over a decade of author interviews (I too was once surprised by Amy Tan's bagful of terriers.) Also, Kansas City Star books editor John Mark Eberhart was apparently one of 30 let go there. So it goes.
Goodbye, Kaufman: Millard Kaufman, co-creator of Mr. Magoo and Oscar-winning screenwriter for Bad Day at Black Rock (which should have won another Oscar for Best Title), and most recently a nonagenarian debut novelist with 2007's "bawdy coming-of-age tale" (everybody's debut novel is a coming-of-age story, even when you're 90) Bowl of Cherries, died Saturday of heart failure. His second novel, Misadventure (not yet available on Amazon), is due out from McSweeney's this fall.
Goodbye, biz journo comity: The New York Observer dishes on the protocol contretemps between fellow Bear Stearns scribes William D. Cohan (the current bestselling House of Cards) and Kate Kelly (Street Fighters, coming in June). (Via PW Daily)
Goodbye, Dart League King: Today's book tourney action: Jonathan Eig out-contrarians the hipster contrarians by going with Toni Morrison's A Mercy, which "rattled [his] bones" although he'd long since "tired of her schtick," over "the greatest dart-league book in the history of American literature," Keith Lee Morris's The Dart League King. (In yesterday's battle of two Amazon editors' favorites, by the way, Monica Ali tipped Aleksandar Hemon's Lazarus Project over Philip Hensher's Northern Clemency, partially thanks to her fear of showing a local bias as a fellow northerner.)
--Tom
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