Comments on Reading Tonight
Actually, Kevin Phillips is just $5 at Town Hall tonight, 7:30p. Sadly, Latifah/Keaton free...
Ursula LeGuin's reading her new book tonight? That would be worth going to. Seeing as she's dead.
@2 - Ah, unless you just killed her, no, she's not.
Mmm, you're right - I was thinking of Madeline L'Engle. All the more reason to go see her tonight; you may not have another chance.
Just a warning, if she lets the audience ask questions, any men in the audience won't get their questions answered, so make sure your gf asks the question instead.
Jonathan's review of All the Sad Young Literary Men is well written. So this isn't a criticism of his review, which I liked.
But, I've read about 5 reviews of that book now (all fairly positive actually) and each review has made me less and less inclined to read it.
Am I missing something about this book because I'm a girl? Seriously, I read all sorts of books and usually the gender of the characters has absolutely zero to do with whether I read a book or not.
I mean I guess it is fine because everyone has their likes and dislikes and God knows there are already way too many books stacked on my nightstand waiting to be read.
But I can't figure out what is so great about this book. And for some reason that annoys me.
It's slacker fiction. When one slacker reads about other slackers it makes the first slacker feel better about reading SLOG all day instead of working.
PopTart, it's very much an acquired taste, as most writing about writers is. You really shouldn't let it get to you--of course it's set the literary world on fire, because it's about the literary world. This doesn't mean it's good or bad, it just means that it gets a lot of attention. If you're not interested, you shouldn't force it.
@8 Thanks Paul. Sadly, my degree is in writing so that probably makes it worse.
However, I spent a bunch more time reading reviews on the internet and now I am sure I don't need to read it and moreover I'm vindicated in my reasons why. I love how on the internet you can usually find back up support for your opinions. I guess I hate that about the internet too though...
On a completely unrelated topic, I thought your piece on Amazon in this week's issue was well written and thought provoking.
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