Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Novels (via Books, Words, and Writing)
Year / 2006
Miéville Goes YA?
Rick Kleffel gets his hands on the new Miéville: “The Miéville you’ll find here is a rather different writer than the one who wrote ‘Perdido Street Station’. He’s stripped down his prose, and though his imagination is slightly less grotesque, it is no less fecund. ‘Un Lun Dun’ is the sort of novel that parents can actually, easily read their children, one chapter at a time. The chapters are short, titled and any single chapter tends to be say three to four pages, a nice easy chunk to read them before they go nighty-night.”
Auctorial Autocrats
DCist: “Well, if Mark Halperin, the man behind ABC News’ The Note, really knows The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008, then it’s a safe bet that whoever wins the White House in 2008 is going to write like a self-obsessed, obtuse dick.”
Bush Reveals Margin of Difference Between Iraq Deaths Caused By His Administration and Deaths from Darfur Massacre
Roundup
- Jack Womack
has a new novecomments on the next Gibson novell? This augurs well. (via Gwenda) - Is The Bionic Woman as seminal a reboot as Battlestar? Given that David Eick is on board, maybe. (via Lee Goldberg)
- Alex Beam on how not to read a book.
- You get a bunch of George Eliot enthusiasts together and it’s all about her sex life.
- Cynthia Ozick rips David Mamet a new one. (via James Tata)
- Slate works off of a different calendar.
- It takes a reprinting for 2008. Tenth anniversary, my ass.
- In this anonymous Telegraph review, some reviewer concludes that Frank Bascombe just might — just might, mind you — bear some similarities to Rabbit Angstrom. To which I reply, it took you three books to figure this out?
