Posted 24 July, 2007 in Jottings |
- Yeah, what Daniel Green said. My favourite bit in this piece comes when Green quotes Charles Taylor castigating Harold Bloom for thinking that a book that has sold 35 million copies could possibly be bad. To hear Taylor explain it, if 35 million people have laid down their hard earned cash, that number is sufficient in itself to induce a bad book to spontaneously morph into a good one.
- As part of their ongoing campaign to save the book reviews, the National Book Critics Circle blog has posted an essay by Lindsay Waters, and editor at the Harvard University Press, on the importance of criticism to literature.
- Alison Bechdel on e-mail: “E-mailing has become almost an autonomic bodily function for me - it’s just going on all the time in the background. Yes, it’s all very distracting. But from what, really? What else would I be doing?” Oh, for the love of …
- Harry Potter 7, the Digested Read. Warning: spoilers inside. Spoilers, I said, SPOILERS … Don’t look … Don’t … Augh, my eyes!
- Remember last fall’s launch for Craig Davidson’s novel The Fighter? You know, the one where Davidson got in the ring with poet Michael Knox and had his ass handed to him? Well, apparently unbroken, Davidson is doing it again for the U.S. launch, this time battling Jonathan Ames. The fight goes tonight in Brooklyn, for anyone who happens to be in town and wants to see two novelists beating the snot out of each other.
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