Wonkette
- Monday, Feb. 23: Last Lion is an anthology of Boston Globe articles about one of Boston’s top five-ish most famous All-Time Kennedys, Teddy Kennedy. The book’s editor Peter Canellos will be giving a talk at Politics & Prose, and hopefully the “Other” of the Kennedys, Caroline, will not be mentioned in any way, lest Canellos would like the book to, we don’t know, unpublish itself, or fuck Arthur Sulzberger. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Tuesday, Feb. 24: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders has been said to be something like the Dubliners of Lahore, Pakistan. Author Daniyal Mueenuddin will be at Politics & Prose, maybe drunk and wishing he were in Paris instead. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Wednesday, Feb. 25: Prolific ladykiller Cass Sunstein has a new book he wrote with some other people who are not married to Samantha Power. It’s called Nudge and it’s a Gladwellian-style EXPOSE about how people will make better choices more often if they are given a small push in the right direction. [Hooks Book Events]
- Thursday, Feb. 26: Liaquat Ahamed makes the case that the Great Depression, not this new one, was caused by France, Germany, the US and England mismanaging basically everything related to economics in the Interwar period. Lords of Finance: The Bankers that Broke the World is his new book in which he calls them out on it. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Friday, Feb. 27: Fool is like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, except with King Lear and his court jester, Pocket. The author’s other work includes something called You Suck!, which is clearly his Coast of Utopia. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Saturday, Feb. 28: All along America was blaming handi-capable inspirational figure Dick Cheney for the Iraq War. Really, it is the fault of this comically sinister neocon banker Ahmed Chalabi. 1 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Sunday, March 1: Dalton School mascot Adam Gopnik, famous for being the only writer in history to go to Paris and like it, will read some choice selections of the finely crafted sentences in his new book, Angels and Ages. [Hooks Books Events]
Meanwhile, at the Fairfax campus of George Mason University, you get adjunct faculty pushing this sort of stuff into the world.
http://integral-review.org/documents/Anderson,%20Such%20a%20Body.%20Micropolitics,%20Vol.%204%20No.%202.pdf
Did anyone read Adam Gopnik’s piece in the New Yorker a couple years ago about how the Baby Boomers and the next generation are the most precious people in the world? It was nauseating. I guess I should be happy that the “next generation” that Gopnik talked about in that piece was the one born after mine, which is the one that came after the Baby Boomers, which is one that people like Gopnik would like to pretend never happened.
Tough luck, Adam. I was born in 1969 and I’m a full-grown adult and I’m going to keep on existing, whether you like it or not. So suck it.
Larry McAwful: Well, yeah. But you guys all suck.
Seriously, whatever happened to Defense Department darling Ahmed Chalabi? He was all set to be the guy we foisted onto Iraq, but then like three weeks before we legally (as opposed to actually) ended the occupation the American military raided Chalabi’s compound and then Iyad Allawi, the CIA’s darling, got appointed interim PM instead. I was sort of hoping that he got lynched by an angry mob in the chaos, but according to Wikipedia he is apparently puttering along as some sort of third-level government bureaucrat after failing to get elected to Parliament in 2005, which is not suitably humiliating for my tastes.