Craziest? I don’t think so. I’m guessing some publicist cooked this up to deflect someone’s attention from Benzedrine-fueled orgies at the Chateau Marmont.
As for persons “branding” themselves, it’s ironic that they’re sacrificing precisely the quality that brands are trying to co-opt. I don’t have to pretend I’m a person. I am a person.
Today’s column asks the question, “Is social media writing or speech?”
In today’s column: Friendster, remembered.
In today’s column: Miss Lonelyhearts and the Resented Publisher.
In today’s column: Happy Birthday, Nathanael West.
After more than five years of reading, writing, and touting e-books, I finally bought an e-ink reader. The price and form factor were finally right. I became jealous of my fellow commuters with their little postcard-sized tablets. I don’t want to alienate anyone, so I’ll just say that the reader I selected begins with a “K.” Or maybe ends with a “k.” (Sorry, Sony.)
In today’s column: Honesty pays, but who’s buying?
It is with a heavy heart but pitiless, unrelenting patriotism that I announce that I — like Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani — will not seek the Republican nomination for president.
In today’s Plus Ça Change column, an unnecessary announcement.
I’d like to stipulate, going forward, the following: we all create jobs. Employees create value. Employers pay wages. Employees spend wages. Employers add jobs. Just because employers appear last in this cycle doesn’t make them any more responsible for job creation than employees. We’ve mistaken the proximate cause of jobs for the ultimate cause and, in so doing, mistaken the cash box for the U.S. Mint.
In today’s Plus Ça Change: What we talk about when we talk about jobs.
With occupation on everyone’s mind, I though this would be an appropriate pick for Ephemera Friday: a postcard of the United Nations that identifies it on the reverse as the Empire State Building.
You know. To confuse Italian flash mobs.
In this week’s Plus Ça Chat, I talk to Joyland co-founder Brian Joseph Davis, who published my story collection Why They Cried.
My story collection Why They Cried has been available — exclusively as a Joyland eBook from ECW Press — for one year. I want to share some lessons learned, but first, here’s how I got here.
In today’s Plus Ça Change column, lessons learned from the first year of Why They Cried.
Here’s a scenario I imagine unfolding in the not too distant future. A game junior representative from some GOP district in the hinterlands charges onto the floor of the House and demands that funding be cut off to HBO. It will be sad when he finds out that HBO is, in fact, a private company.
In today’s Plus Ça Change column: It’s not PBS. It’s HBO.
With neither sarcastic sniffs nor youthful sentimentalism, I’d like to register my support the Occupy Wall Street protesters. If their only message were that business needs to be regulated, I would support them, because — for me — that’s the bottom line of our current financial crisis. Business must be regulated. The sweet, Reagan-era whispers that we could deregulate everything and trust business to take care of our needs have proven false.
In today’s Plus Ça Change column, I register support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Here’s the (imperfect) video of yesterday’s Plus Ça Chat with Geoff Klock. We talk about Wonder Woman.
In today’s “Plus Ça Change” column: Unsung hero Ned Jordan and a plug for Adult Education.
PRAISE FOR
WHY THEY CRIED
"... demonstrates real insight into the way we live now."
–The Rumpus
"Reminiscent of George Saunders and James Thurber, Why They Cried is a great collection of modern tales."
–Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief and co-founder of One Story
"Jim Hanas has a remarkable talent for imagining and crafting uncanny little worlds that make me vaguely nervous. And yet I never want to leave."
–Rob Walker, co-founder of Significant Objects
"A tender and smart assembly of fiction about people trying to communicate—with each other, the world—and all the ways they fail. Fail better, fail beautifully."
–Fiona Maazel, author of Last Last Chance
Jim Hanas is the author of the short story collection Why They Cried (Joyland eBooks/ECW Press) and director of audience development at HarperCollins Publishers.
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