BLURB BLURBS

Nick Tosches on how “…glibberish kills”:


“Think about it. If a great writer’s words are deemed to be worth nothing between the covers of a book, why should they be deemed to be of value on the back of a book?”



“When writers and would-be writers asked him to read and comment on their work, William Faulkner used to tell them that he only read the bible—a lie finer by far than those of which blurbs are made…”



IN THE CLEAR (Nettwerk America, March 1st)

The Ivy advance arrived, and it’s a hummer. Honey disconnect the phone.



PRINT WIMPS

More bathroom reading.