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!
