Last One About Sherry Jones…
Thursday, September 4th by Shane
I finally found a picture. She seems nice
So while America is still filled with the most cowardly group of publishing ninnies in the world, at least Jones’ tale of Mohammed’s love child (see what I did there?) will finally be published in England, whose residents speak a very loose form of English. So I guess you can expect all of London to be a towering inferno by tomorrow. Sorry, Clive Anderson.
But don’t worry, there’s a school board in the UK to make up for this courageous deed by crapping their pants over a poem that talks about a bread knife. It’s a poem, so I already think it should be removed from the school (Seriously, I just buried poetry) but the board are the same bunch of wankers we have in America that can’t see past their fake jobs to anything practical in the world and I hope… I don’t know, I guess something bad but not that bad. They’re dicks but with every Muslim in the world ready to suicide nuke their country I feel kind of bad for them.
My main-ish dude Joshua Henkin throws down some knowledge for all us sinners on The Elegant Variation. As a great writer and seemingly great teacher, he’ll learn you good. Also, next week we’re going to have a goddamn contest here involving the paperback version of Matrimony and if you don’t try and compete you will banned from everything on the internet save those games where you can win a ringtone.
Was saying Sherry Jones seems nice sexist? Don’t tell Pat Buchanan.
This isn’t actually Beckett performing Beckett, but the guy who is reading this is really hard to listen to. The book seems pretty cool, though.
And finally, some tips on how to make your own book cover look not awful. Philip Roth obviously didn’t read this, and it once again brings up the craw-sticking point of why don’t book covers look better or more interesting? Did you see McSweeney’s 28? Holy crap, people. I won’t butcher the idea by poorly describing it, but it just shows how literature can be packaged in phenomenal, dazzling ways. Those other fools should be ashamed of themselves. Not just for that, but it’s a big one.
