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This is literature in mid-transformation, the modernist bleeding into the postmodern and beyond. In his introduction to Astonishing Stories, Chabon calls this new high-low fiction "Trickster literature," and you can almost hear in that label the distant bugle call of a manifesto. And you can almost see the future of literature coming. Looks like it's going to be a page turner...
Lenovo gets to use IBM's brand for the next 18 months on products such as ThinkPad. After that, goods will carry the combined Lenovo and IBM label. And in five years "there will be no more IBM personal computers," says Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing. That's fine by IBM, which gets to make a graceful strategic exit from an unprofitable commodity business. And if Lenovo proves better at selling PCs than IBM, the Yanks still benefit: IBM will keep a 19% stake. --By Matthew Forney. With reporting by Michael Schuman
...gossip pages--rapt. But fame alone doesn't really pay the bills. No other CEO has combined celebrity and smart branding quite like Sean (P. Diddy) Combs, 35, head of the sprawling Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group. Combs' $300 million urban empire includes a hip-hop record label, two restaurants, a music-publishing arm and a marketing company, Blue Flame, which teaches FORTUNE 500 clients like Pepsi and Microsoft how to reach an inner-city audience. And in June, Bad Boy's crown jewel, the Sean John clothing line, earned Combs the Menswear Designer of the Year Award from...
...it’s really on the B-sides, away from label attention, where Morrissey steps up the traditional morbidity and gets away with murder. He bashes Ringo Starr in “It’s Hard To Walk Tall When You’re Small,” offering his most direct attack since he railed against Natalie Merchant after she covered his “Everyday Is Like Sunday.” Like he has so effortlessly throughout his career, he effectively dives into simple depths of misery on the shimmering “My Life...
Polenzani gave a copy of the album to the owner of her label, Daemon Records—who happened to be Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. The disc was a burned copy of the recently finished master disc. “Mike’s cell phone number [was] written on the top in a Sharpie,” Warren nostalgically recalls...