Saturday, September 13, 2008

The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

If reviews of books could kill, we'd have a mass exodus over the repetition of "as" three times in the following travestatious example of not only "a puzzle of identity and history" but also, a puzzling piece of one poorly penned piece in the present (tensed).

What was the editor (not) thinking (given the zing-thing contains less than half-a-dozen 'graphs)?

CONFIDENTIAL TO FRANK: You are so right to expose the many wrongs ruining a once-respectable occupation (on a daily basis, ISTM). I'm with you (and the incomparable Roger K. Miller, too) . . . we're jes' old-school un-new and too blue to be anything less than sad-but-true.

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