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13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - The Worst National Boo... · 0 replies · +2 points

"Or something" will be carved on the headstone of 21st century fiction.

13 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Checking In · 0 replies · +1 points

As an expert on drought, I suggest that they happen for a reason. They're no accident.

13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - “Literary Journalism... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hunter S. Thompson!

Always under moral obligation.

13 years ago @ Wonkette - Joe Walsh: Electing a ... · 0 replies · +7 points

That "eight to nine undecided" made me laugh....

13 years ago @ LitStack - When Books Mattered · 0 replies · +1 points

A fitting home from the blessed Maxwell Perkins' ghost.

14 years ago @ Bookworm - KCRW - Edmund White: Jack Hol... · 0 replies · +1 points

Along these lines, there's also a new book out about the history of gay writers: Eminent Outlaws.

14 years ago @ My Friend Amy - Review: Spin by Cather... · 1 reply · +1 points

"Chick lit" does seem condescending. If it's literature, it isn't "chick."

But some books probably deserve the title.

14 years ago @ Wonkette - Jan Brewer Expecting T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Love the green nose!

15 years ago @ A Reader's Respite - The Sea and the Silence · 0 replies · +1 points

There's something universally fascinating about Irish history. I just heard that President Clinton is currently reading (and quoting) Yeats.
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15 years ago @ A Reader's Respite - How to become a litera... · 0 replies · +1 points

Seth Godin suggests that as e-books become more pervasive, part of the reason to buy a real book instead will be that it is beautiful and a little treasure-house like the ones you describe here. As writers, that can only make us happy.

A book in the hand, a real book.
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