Comments on: Roundup http://www.edrants.com/roundup-229/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gwenda http://www.edrants.com/roundup-229/comment-page-1/#comment-245452 Gwenda Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:22:14 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=7693#comment-245452 Re: Krakauer (who I haven't read) -- It takes some guts to do that. If only other big-name authors would occasionally do the same when their manuscripts haven't yet come together. I don't remember anyone grousing when Michael Chabon took that extra year or so to finish a new version of Yiddish Policeman. Re: Krakauer (who I haven’t read) — It takes some guts to do that. If only other big-name authors would occasionally do the same when their manuscripts haven’t yet come together. I don’t remember anyone grousing when Michael Chabon took that extra year or so to finish a new version of Yiddish Policeman.

]]> By: Steven Augustine http://www.edrants.com/roundup-229/comment-page-1/#comment-245446 Steven Augustine Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:48:21 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=7693#comment-245446 From the second article you link on the Amis (now Amis-McEwan) affair: "Martin Amis, the novelist whom McEwan was defending, found himself in hot water when he published an essay in which he wondered whether Muslims should be prevented from traveling and even deported." Bearing in mind that propaganda is the art of half-truths: Martin Amis published no such essay; the remarks were made in an interview with Ginny Dougary for the Times Online, Sept. 2006. It was an extreme remark that he has apologized for and retracted, but the remark was never about his purported "racial" hatred for Muslims, but his anger at what he perceived as tacit support in the UK's Muslim community for the 7/7 bombers. From the second article you link on the Amis (now Amis-McEwan) affair:

“Martin Amis, the novelist whom McEwan was defending, found himself in hot water when he published an essay in which he wondered whether Muslims should be prevented from traveling and even deported.”

Bearing in mind that propaganda is the art of half-truths: Martin Amis published no such essay; the remarks were made in an interview with Ginny Dougary for the Times Online, Sept. 2006.

It was an extreme remark that he has apologized for and retracted, but the remark was never about his purported “racial” hatred for Muslims, but his anger at what he perceived as tacit support in the UK’s Muslim community for the 7/7 bombers.

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