Comments on: Roundup http://www.edrants.com/roundup-44/ 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: Chuck http://www.edrants.com/roundup-44/comment-page-1/#comment-28991 Chuck Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:10:55 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=3749#comment-28991 That fucking intern forgot to update the "About Us" page. That fucking intern forgot to update the “About Us” page.

]]> By: DrMabuse http://www.edrants.com/roundup-44/comment-page-1/#comment-28964 DrMabuse Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:29:07 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=3749#comment-28964 Chuck, baby, thanks for stopping by! And thanks for clarifying the true purpose of TBS! I appreciate your candor. I mean, here I was naively thinking that "daily commentary and provocative insight into the book-publishing and bookselling industries from estabished and new voices" (culled from your "About Us" page) reflected some modicum of journalism -- you know, calling around, confirming news from multiple sources, keeping a pad by your desk to track calls. But now I know it's all about the sex! Oh well, at least you (and, I presume TBS by default) have a sense of humor. You got me on the date of the article, but seeing as how it was on The Book Standard's "Most Emailed Articles" RSS feed, I figured it was fairly current. The oversight is mine. But perhaps this reveals that only a handful of people are emailing your articles around, as opposed to a vast swarm of insiders. In any event, I remain a fateful reader, happy to rib for your pleasure, Ed Chuck, baby, thanks for stopping by! And thanks for clarifying the true purpose of TBS! I appreciate your candor. I mean, here I was naively thinking that “daily commentary and provocative insight into the book-publishing and bookselling industries from estabished and new voices” (culled from your “About Us” page) reflected some modicum of journalism — you know, calling around, confirming news from multiple sources, keeping a pad by your desk to track calls. But now I know it’s all about the sex!

Oh well, at least you (and, I presume TBS by default) have a sense of humor. You got me on the date of the article, but seeing as how it was on The Book Standard’s “Most Emailed Articles” RSS feed, I figured it was fairly current. The oversight is mine. But perhaps this reveals that only a handful of people are emailing your articles around, as opposed to a vast swarm of insiders.

In any event, I remain a fateful reader, happy to rib for your pleasure,

Ed

]]> By: Chuck http://www.edrants.com/roundup-44/comment-page-1/#comment-28961 Chuck Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:59:24 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=3749#comment-28961 Re: ribbing TBS Do you think Savanna Samson KNOWS who the real author is??? We were after sex, baby, digitized or not. We'll leave the investigative reporting to you. (By the way, Encyclopedia Brown, that Savanna Q&A of ours ran exactly 9 months ago.) We look forward to associate publicist (Peter Barrett, our moppy-haired friend?)'s answer. Thunder's Mount/Avalon was super-pissy about our quoting SS on that whole author issue. Not pissed at SS, of course, just us, for Savanna knew not what she said. Yours, doubly penetrated, Chuck Shelton Managing Editor, VNU US Lit Group Kirkus Reviews The Book Standard cshelton@thebookstandard.com Re: ribbing TBS

Do you think Savanna Samson KNOWS who the real author is??? We were after sex, baby, digitized or not. We’ll leave the investigative reporting to you. (By the way, Encyclopedia Brown, that Savanna Q&A of ours ran exactly 9 months ago.)

We look forward to associate publicist (Peter Barrett, our moppy-haired friend?)’s answer. Thunder’s Mount/Avalon was super-pissy about our quoting SS on that whole author issue. Not pissed at SS, of course, just us, for Savanna knew not what she said.

Yours, doubly penetrated,

Chuck Shelton
Managing Editor, VNU US Lit Group
Kirkus Reviews
The Book Standard
cshelton@thebookstandard.com

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