Drive-By Roundup
- Crazy day. Thus, brief summations.
- Inflate your numbers much, publishers?
- Apparently, DHS digs Death Cab for Cutie.
- This 75-year-old woman hammered the point home. Good on her. (via the Other Reluctant)
- Chris Pine will play Kirk in the forthcoming Star Trek movie. Who?
- Mailer’s in poor health.
- No surprise. Tanenhaus and company have demonstrated themselves as incompetent editors, failing to confirm a pivotal plot point against the book. (I can tell you that other publications I’ve written for are far more arduous about this basic journalistic practice, even when I’m in the personal habit of making the fact checker/editor’s life a little easier by providing page numbers for all quotes.)
- The Existence Machine quibbles with Pinker.
- Why aren’t there more women in the music scene? (via Kevin Smokler)
- Can you believe a book review?
- Another controversial Jerry Fodor article — this time on natural selection.
- It seems that all the big boys are coming out to review the Michaelis book: next at bat is John Updike. (via The Millions)
>Why aren’t there more women in the music scene?
That was four years ago. It’s all better now.
In re: that Siegel review in the Post. I like what David Markson did in his last (most recent, knock on wood) book, inserting passages designed to trap the inattentive reviewer. Maybe Jack Green can write a sequel.