The constant bulletins and newsletters circulated in the world of arts professionals are usually quite sweet and sometimes pithy.

A youth orchestra in venezuela's new initiative to bring classical music to urban slums.

An award for an environmentally conscious theatre production done suspended from tree branches.

The obituary of Pavarotti and Jude Law's risky Hamlet make for in depth reading while the statistic pop and rock stars are twice as likely to die and early death than other people is cocktail party conversation in the making.

But today, pulp fiction is at the forefront with my current favourite idiot:

From an article in ArtsProfessional:

A Polish pulp fiction writer was sentenced to 25 years in jail last week for his role in the abduction, torture and murder of a love rival, a crime that he then used for the plot of a bestselling thriller. Writer Krystian Bala was found guilty of orchestrating the murder seven years ago of businessman Dariusz Janiszewski, in a crime of passion brought on by the suspicion that the victim was sleeping with his ex-wife. Janiszewski’s murder had detectives baffled for years until, that is, they read Bala’s – clearly ill-advised – novel, in which the villain gets away with kidnapping, mutilating and murdering a young woman. No such luck for the bad guy in real life as Bala was sentenced to life imprisonment, at the end of a case that has gripped Poland for months.


Lordy.