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News & ArtsFriday, November 27, 2009
Books On Rejecting Novels
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Any given morning might bring the Old Testament rewritten by George Bush Sr., a management guide whose author is possessed by the spirit of Nikola Tesla, a 200,000-word epic about a Nazi-battling rocket scientist, picture books featuring woodland creatures with nauseatingly alliterative monikers (Tippy Tommy Turtle, etc.), erotic poetry about Santa Claus: book ideas so startlingly awful I cannot even make them up, but must wait for them to arrive in the inbox one after another with the regularity of a metronome.
It's an entertaining, and mildly depressing, look into the books America writes, and the kind of books that we believe people want to read. I think you should give it a look.
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