Comments on: The Ed Critics

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:06:46 +0000

I was once criticized by someone thusly: ‘You are the future of literature.’

That one, that – that really stung.

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Matt’s Bookosphere 7/23/08 « Enter the Octopus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:37:39 +0000

[...] judging books on their covers On The Joker and the Trickster archetype Ed Champion revisits some of his critics’ favorite jabs Win a copy of Terry Brooks’ “The Genesis of [...]

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eNotes Book Blog » Blog Archive » Jonathan Lethem Loves Ikea… — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:14:46 +0000

[...] The good news is it looks like in some form the brilliant Bat Segundo Show will return to the airwaves. The bad news is, is that in the interim Ed is starting to pick petty fights and lose his mind. [...]

By: Patrick Stephenson

Patrick Stephenson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:16:39 +0000

Oh, Ed.

By: Corey V.

Corey V. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:57:44 +0000

You forgot the best one: “Fuck Ed. In the ear.”

That’s from me.

By: Bill Peschel

Bill Peschel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:50:23 +0000

You’ve got a pretty perceptive set of readers, there, Ed. I’d have to agree with them. (heh).

Let’s see, how much more meta can we get.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:53:07 +0000

I’m still chuffed that you once quoted a little tut-tut of mine in a Segundo intro!

By: Nigel Beale

Nigel Beale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:10:26 +0000

hmmm. the old beat them at their own game ploy eh? Nice.

By: B²

B² — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:44:26 +0000

Not sure what motivated this entry, but it put me in quite the retrospective frame of mind. I’ve been reading your stuff for something like seven or eight years now, and even (especially?) when something you’ve written has pissed me off, I’ve had to admire, not just your courage in laying yourself out there and taking the slings and arrows with far more toughness and grace than I’d be capable of, but also your capacity for intelligent, honest introspection. You are confounding, complex, and elusive, but never boring.

And to trot out my current fave quote: “Woe to you when all men speak well of you.” (Luke 6:26)

By: Wells

Wells — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:45:29 +0000

Ed, I like you. And that’s not only because we share the same first name.

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:15:41 +0000

Oh, and your interviews are narcissistic too. Is there a single person in New York who loves the sound of his own voice more than Ed Champion? You suck.

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:14:16 +0000

Well, that’s just priceless, Ed. Leaving comments on other comments about your blogging. Does it get any more self-absorbed than that? Or is this some kind of bullshit metafictional game that only YOU seem to know about? Either way, this isn’t amusing. Why don’t you think about people other than yourself?

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:11:24 +0000

I have to agree with what DrMabuse has to say. I’ve been reading this site for years, waiting for Ed to get outside of his head. But he can’t. I think Lee Siegel was right not to call him a writer. He is, at best, a hot dog vendor of words. Sure, he’s amusing at times. But not nearly amusing enough. And I think I’ve had enough. Consider your RSS feed unsubscribed.

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:09:31 +0000

Oh come on, Ed. How can you be so delusional? All you think about here is yourself. You carry on with the most superficial literary swagger I’ve seen. Sometimes, you make even Keith Gessen look like the world’s most generous soul.

By: DrMabuse

DrMabuse — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:08:24 +0000

This is probably the most self-serving and narcissistic post I’ve seen in this website’s history. Why don’t you get a day job like everybody else?