Wonkette
The delights of mid-August in Washington D.C. are innumerable, truly. Now add “America’s most controversial Saul Bellow-enthusiast James Wood,” “Helene Cooper,” and “other things” to this ever-growing list of available pleasantries.
Monday, August 10
New York Times lady Helene Cooper has a memoir, the House at Sugar Beach, which is supposed to be quite good! 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Dwayne Betts was once in prison, and now he is at Busboys & Poets. His new book is A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival and Coming of Age in Prison. 6:30 PM. [Busboys & Poets]
Wednesday, August 12
Ha, did not realize virtuosic finger-drummer James Wood is still on his How Fiction Works promotional tour. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Thursday, August 13
Alex S. Jones is that rare media critic who has written for publications other than his own Tumblr. Losing the News is his latest book, in which he argues that the news has gone soft. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Worse THAN, Juli, worse thAn. People who plus events in our nation’s capital (yes, AL) should know better. Spellcheck won’t catch this very common error, it’s up to the individual human mind. Especially if it wants to rule the world.
Oh, my — that Harper’s essay is hilarious — that’s by James Wood, I assume, unless there’s an actual set of parents who would name their child Colson Whitehead. Here’s one of my favorite bits:
There it is in all its Bellovian glory, the bluster and bombast! Can you smell it? The musk of a virile sentence drawing blood into itself? It is about to spread the labia of mediocrity and rut with the ineffable.
I’m still a little puzzled as to why the ineffable has a mediocre labia, though. But I guess if you’ve gotten to third base with the ineffable, you’re not going to be bothered with such things.
According to http://www.bookscausehumidty.com, some might pose counter-argument to your Title’s claim.