LOST contributor nominated for L.A. Times Book Prize

Tom Bissell's The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Pantheon) was nominated for a 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize.

Tom wrote on the subject in the first issue of LOST.

The winners will be announced April 25, 2008.

FSG's haunt

Rather than moving to the Flatiron Building, where a few of Macmillan's other publishing houses live, Farrar, Straus will be leaving its storied offices behind en route to Manhattan's 18th Street.

The New Yorker: Dislodging F.S.G.

Wrong gear? No fear.

Every major sporting championship produces "winner" apparel for both teams, so that it's available. Where do the losing team's goods go? In Nicaragua, you're better off now if you were a Patriots fan.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Super upset, super threads

Even in June 2005....

Roosevelt Island's treasures were feeling crumbly (see related entry below).

A crumbling NYC landmark crumbles more

The Smallpox Hospital, on Roosevelt Island in New York City's East River, is going to ground.

NY Times City Room Blog: Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island Crumbles

UPDATE on LOST issue No. 16--Frank Buckles is the last WW1 vet standing

Frank Buckles, whom we interviewed for our 2007 Summer issue, "LOST at War," is the last living American World War 1 veteran.

KC Star: Missouri native is last veteran of World War I