TV Tips™

One of my favorite novels of the last [???] years, William Boyd's Any Human Heart, has been adapted for Masterpiece Theater. I had no idea! Boyd did the screenplay!

I watched the first episode (of three) on the PBS website, and can't wait for the rest!

In the meantime—here's a handsome photo of the excellent cover...

...and a brief interview I did with the painter, Duncan Hannah, back in 2004.

Dizzies Newsfeeds™ for Thursday, September 19

Quotables™: Chuck Klosterman at the Brooklyn Book Festival: "Even with something you absolutely love, if you think about it long enough, you can make it seem horrible."...At the galleries: Duncan Hannah at James Graham (1014 Madison) through 10/7, featuring this delightful scene:



Here's what the young F. Scott Fitzgerald's Buffalo home looks like today (photo from Dizzies team member Arlo):



Haven't read yet: A nicely obsessive Philip K. Dick blog, plus an interview with Jonathan Lethem on PKD...Significant misreading: "Meat" for "meta"...(via BoingBoing, which seems to have a lot of book-related things today.)