Aside from the fact that I somehow mixed up Han Solo with Greedo during the Eisner-Pekar Questionnaire, the panel went very well. Thanks to all who attended. APE podcasts forthcoming.
Year / 2006
George Saunders Kicks Deborah Solomon’s Ass
Q: Your new collection of short stories, “In Persuasion Nation,” presents America as a commerce-saturated but happy place where children go to live with market-research firms and giant Twinkies run through fields of flowers. Is it fair to call you an ecstatic appreciator of trash culture?
Excuse me. Can we require readers to read my books before they continue with this interview?
Well, If There’s a Chronicle Quota for Only One Bay Area Litblogger, I Couldn’t Think of a More Deserving Person
Oscar Villalon remains deaf to my queries, but at least my pal Scott Esposito cracked the Chronicle today. And I’m very happy for him. Truly. No bullshit.
A Nation of Forensic Vagina Inspectors
New York Times: “There are other countries in the world that, like El Salvador, completely ban abortion, including Malta, Chile and Colombia. El Salvador, however, has not only a total ban on abortion but also an active law-enforcement apparatus — the police, investigators, medical spies, forensic vagina inspectors and a special division of the prosecutor’s office responsible for Crimes Against Minors and Women, a unit charged with capturing, trying and incarcerating an unusual kind of criminal.”