Tom Barbash

The Franz

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Hey, Dave Eggers: Panorama is Like Candlelight Dinner. We Wanted Apple Dippers.

The future of journalism metaphors? ​Last week, I brought Panorama with me on my morning commute. It was raining, and I was carrying more than 3 pounds of San Francisco literary history: huge, smooth-as-polyester broadsheet pages, gorgeous graphics, 350,000 brilliantly edited words. I thought I wo ... More >>

April Literary Events

The future of journalism metaphors? ​Last week, I brought Panorama with me on my morning commute. It was raining, and I was carrying more than 3 pounds of San Francisco literary history: huge, smooth-as-polyester broadsheet pages, gorgeous graphics, 350,000 brilliantly edited words. I thought I wo ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis 'Shocked' and 'Upset' By Scenes in His Own Book

​Bring up novelist Bret Easton Ellis around a dinner table, and it's almost inevitable that somebody will say American Psycho was gross. In extreme cases, people may leave the room. Ellis's violent streak tends to have that effect on people, and as it turns out, it has the same effect on Bret East ... More >>