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Friday, January 30, 2009

Books HAHAHAHAHA

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM

Slate:

In response to the publishing world's troubles, historian and best-selling author Douglas Brinkley has floated what may be the most improbable bailout yet: a federal subsidy for book reviews. Brinkley told the Times, "Like public television, I think book review sections almost need to get subsidized to keep the intellectual life in America alive. … So if we can do that for radio and we could do it for television, why can't we do it for the book industry, which is suffering terribly right now?"

HAHAHAHAHAAHH—Oh, God. My sides hurt—HAHAHAHAHA

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I have proposed the same thing: that Government should create a Web Writer category with a G-7 pay grade to fund writers who would post information for the public good -- like a PBS for text.

Posted by Push Pin on January 30, 2009 at 1:24 PM

Books are like cocaine before it became crack.

You just can't stop at one.

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM

laugh all you want, but you're going to be facing a lot more competition for your job in the next couple years, the way things are going. take a federal grant if you can get it.

Posted by devilsmoke on January 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM

Why not require all those tenured literature professors to publish 10-20 book reviews a year in mainstream papers (to keep their tenure). They're reading *anyway*...

Posted by Simac on January 30, 2009 at 2:03 PM

Wait, I thought Douglas Brinkley died. Or was that David Halberstam?

Posted by Geni on January 30, 2009 at 3:04 PM

@5 It was David Halberstam. He was born in 1934. Doug Brinkley is a tad bit younger (born 1960) and the chosen archivist &/or biographer of people as diverse as Gerald Ford & Dr Hunter S Thompson.

Posted by E on January 30, 2009 at 3:11 PM