Thursday, September 08, 2005
Away, with Words!
The literary editor is in a pensive mood of late. The new George Saunders confirms that the man is one of the greatest writers alive (nobody else could write a comic novel about genocide and manage to be funny yet sensitive, and not in that "Life Is Beautiful" kind of way. On the other hand, the new George Saunders is barely longer than the combined stories he and Mark Monz submitted to the Wisconsin Book Festival's writing contest, yet cost $13 (paperback!). Then there is the strange phenomena of "My Sister's Keeper" -- a chicklit book that every reporting chick reports the same thing: "So riveting I couldn't put it down, but I loathed the ending." And then there's the Monz, ho combines the best qualities of Reinke and Tom Wolfe with today's report: "Today's lunch is a smoked turkhamhavartionWGapplebananayummy."
The literary editor is in a pensive mood of late. The new George Saunders confirms that the man is one of the greatest writers alive (nobody else could write a comic novel about genocide and manage to be funny yet sensitive, and not in that "Life Is Beautiful" kind of way. On the other hand, the new George Saunders is barely longer than the combined stories he and Mark Monz submitted to the Wisconsin Book Festival's writing contest, yet cost $13 (paperback!). Then there is the strange phenomena of "My Sister's Keeper" -- a chicklit book that every reporting chick reports the same thing: "So riveting I couldn't put it down, but I loathed the ending." And then there's the Monz, ho combines the best qualities of Reinke and Tom Wolfe with today's report: "Today's lunch is a smoked turkhamhavartionWGapplebananayummy."
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