Why the heck would Martin Amis want to distance himself from his 1982 classic Invasion of the Space Invaders? Everybody weighs in on the death of journalist Anthony Shadid. Alexander Chee on “The Jeremy Lin Economy” at The Classical. We aren’t sure if the Lin Economy includes the book deal he’s going to land. The American boosterism of Junot Díaz and Garrison Keillor. Want to look like Juliet from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet? Rookie tells you how. Joe Fassler at The Atlantic […]
Somebody Please Tell Garrison Keillor to Shush His Mouth
Seriously, could somebody just pull Garrison Keillor’s jowls over his mouth and shut him up? First he goes and disses Jews who wrote Christmas songs, then he goes and blabbers on about the publishing industry being dead: “Self-publishing will destroy the aura of martyrdom that writers have enjoyed for centuries. Tortured geniuses, rejected by publishers, etc., etc. If you publish yourself, this doesn’t work anymore, alas. Children, I am an author who used to type a book manuscript on a […]
Garrison Keillor Looks Like a Fart
By Jason Diamond And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday—if you’re not in the club, then buzz off. -Garrison Keillor quote via Tablet. Until I read Sarah Vowell’s Radio On: A […]