McCain Chooses Dead Russian for VP…
Tuesday, August 19th by Shane
Thought it was gonna be Romney
Possibly in an attempt to continue trash talking Russia, McCain has now hat-tipped one of its dissidents. The presidential hopeful has claimed a Solzhenitsyn story as his own faith-boosting anecdote. It involves a cross, dirt, and harsh imprisonment. So did maybe McCain also coincidentally have the same experience? No, no he didn’t, but at least he’ll shine a little more light on the guy who just died that he blatantly stole from.
Here is too many NY Times articles- One about how people really like Updike but are unhappy with Cher, another article about how getting or doling out blurbs is easily the hardest thing any writer, or human, will ever have to do, and two Kafka things, one about porn and one not about porn.
The Millions discusses maybe the greatest mystery cliche that isn’t The butler did it- The Closed Room mystery. You can also follow the clues to Agatha Christie being all racist.
A bunch of people are all up in arms over some fresh Young Adult attacks. Good for them. But as for Ed, or anyone who looks like Ed, reading teen fiction on the subway is, uh… that’s weird.
Via Bookslut, W.B. Yeats and the art of being lonely.
In that blurb story I linked earlier it says that some authors refuse to have their blurb next to the blurb of an author they don’t like. Authors are goddamn babies.
I wonder if Murakami’s new book about running can be so boring it actually ends up back at good.
And finally, Enter the Octopus has posted the 48 top sci-fi book adaptations, also known as every movie ever made from a sci-fi book. Don’t believe me? Freejack is on there. Hell, Battlefield: Earth is on there. Maybe a handful of adaptations aren’t listed for some insane reason, but if the Mario Van Peebles’ film Solo makes it, everything makes it.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:42 am
“I wonder if Murakami’s new book about running can be so boring it actually ends up back at good.”
Actually, it’s so boring that it surpasses good and ends up back at boring. And I love Murakami.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Wow, a double-boring. I’m impressed.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:50 am
On the blurb thing: I put down a novel in a bookstore the other day that looked interesting from a distance. But when I picked it up, an enthusiastic blurb on the front cover by Dan Brown made me drop it like I’d touched hot snot (which I suppose I had.)