Comments on: Roundup

By: danup

danup — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:35:29 +0000

It’s odd that you’d quote from a largely positive review of McInerney’s most recent novel to excoriate his own book reviewing. Say what you will about McInerney the public figure but I think he got the fundamental problem of terrorist-lit right.

By: Matt’s Bookosphere 6/24/08 « Enter the Octopus

Matt’s Bookosphere 6/24/08 « Enter the Octopus — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:46:14 +0000

[...] Ed Champion’s claws are out [...]

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:48:19 +0000

I can say without shame that The Dirt is the only non-fiction book I’ve read in the last two years, and it is fascinating. I don’t even like the band on an ironic level and I couldn’t stop reading.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:22:20 +0000

The link about the vanilla-ization of anal sex reminded me of a recent Onion article: Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At.

http://origin.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/pornography_desensitized

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:23:25 +0000

Ed, courtesy of Bookscan:

The Dirt: 99,000 in hardcover, 166,000 in paperback. Wow.

By: Responding to the litblogging boys at pinkyspaperhaus

Responding to the litblogging boys at pinkyspaperhaus — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:01:53 +0000

[...] Ed swipes at Jay McInerney, unfairly, I think. McInerney’s review (of Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days) was so entertaining that it made me curious about what else McInerney is writing these days. For my money, though, the best review of the book appeared in the LA Times; although it was a little more sedate, it provided historical context, illuminates a seeming contradiction between the balance of fiction and fact that Dubus lays claim to. [...]

By: jimmy beck

jimmy beck — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:16:15 +0000

“Hands, touching hands, reaching out
Touching me, touching you
Oh, sweet Caroline
Good times never seem so good
I’ve been inclined to believe it never would”

Dude, that’s poetry.