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Genius.

• Nicholas Sparks (of The Notebook fame) calls Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian “pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic” and “horrible”. Hypocrisy Meter explodes.

• And there is more McCarthy bashing in this Guardian article about what makes a book ‘bad’. Poor guy can’t catch a break.

• Good things come in small packages.

• Does Michael Lewis snatch his ideas from college kids?

• Want to read a six-year-old David Foster Wallace’s poem about Vikings? Me too.

• Maybe it should be called The Blue Prize. Zing!

• The cheek! Apple’s policy of deleting risqué iPhone applications has some Germans understandably miffed.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Feminist? Or sexist?

• Conservative d-bag Glenn Beck trashes French book about socialism. Sales of said book go through the roof.

• Margaret Atwood sings!

Jordan – TheNile.co.nz
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