- Dan Brown has donated $2.2 million to his old high school. Now if only he’d conduct some real philanthropy and stop writing dumbed down Eco.
- Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez has issued an intriguing ultimatum.
- D-Loy Jo suggests that Bush has lost the war on the publishing front.
- The harp is making a comeback.
- Will Graham Greene’s work last?
Year / 2004
Kerry Lulls Crying Baby to Silence with Tedious Platitudes; Wins Grateful Mother’s Vote
“Don’t Film Me” — the Last Cry of a Scoundrel
Joshuah Bearman: “Which is why we drove them away. The trick with Republican staffers running dirty tricks, we discovered, is to turn cameras on them. They wilt like shrinking violets. Stephen Elliott and I are out here with a documentary crew, and when the film started rolling, the GOP?s bogus Gay Pride parade came to a quick end. ‘Don?t film me,’ the ringleader said when we stuck to them. ‘I?m expressing my freedom of speech.'” (via Bondgirl)
Politics is a Sham
I’d express my malaise about tomorrow, but Jeff and Maud have ably covered this ground. I’ll only say that I’ve never felt so much disgust for politics. On the national, state and local level, we have been inundated with lies, ultimatums, and outright blackmail if we don’t abide by one party line or the other.
Tomorrow’s election is perhaps the most important election in the last sixty years. So I encourage all Return of the Reluctant readers to vote. However, to put my own personal partisanship aside, I also urge all voters to vote who they feel is right for the job. Contrary to the leaflets that clog the mailboxes, no one is holding a gun to your head to abide by some austere answer key. You can vote any combo you want. You can vote any candidate you want. Just don’t become a drone.
AMR
- Jonathan Stroud unveils his favorite fantasy novels.
- “Hot” John Sayles talks about his short story collection with the Globe.
- The Hag has new digs (and she’s now read Marquand to boot!).
- The New Yorker goes all Nancy Drew on us.
- Hemingway the boxer.
- Dave Eggers: this generation’s Jack Kerouac?
- Newsday talks with M.G. Vassanji.
