Salman Rushdie Just Jihaded Some Dude…
Thursday, August 28th by Shane
Oh, in court? Lame
So the guy who was calling Rushdie “Scruffy” and saying he was a huge douche now has to admit that he’s only kind of a douche. Rushdie took one of his ex-guardsmen to court and squeezed an apology out of him and had the first printing of the book destroyed. He stopped short of making the guy read The Enchantress of Florence, because the judge ruled it cruel and unusual.
That was the dumbest joke I ever made.
William T. Vollmann has a new book out and it’s the most expensive thing ever that wasn’t written on human skin. There are some questions why it’s so damn much, and Ed at first implies Vollmann needs more money for hideous glasses, but the comments section is very informative on how book pricing works and how expensive Gravity’s Rainbow was when it came out? Almost seventy bucks factoring in inflation for a book about boners? Great merciful Christ.
A review of the new Paul Auster book that is so confusing and disjointed I dread reading the book.
Jeffrey Eugenides reads and discusses a story by Harold Brodkey, some sort of dead hoaxster who had AIDS. Yeah, seriously.
(I just looked through this post. Check out how many times I write “book”.)
And finally, via Jamie, a bunch of awful ideas about books. Ok, they’re not all bad (one that’s great is taking book readings out of book stores. Seriously, that is a good idea). But making widgets so you can buy books easier than going to Amazon? Jesus Christ, why don’t we just invent a pill that makes you feel like you read Middlemarch.
