Peek Around the Pole
I’m reading Kate Atkinson’s CASE HISTORIES and enjoying her somewhat disjointed portrait of her private detective. She takes on the madness of vanished children from the points of view of surviving loved ones and then distills her character’s reaction through his experiences with these special people; Atkinson does a wonderful job of making this difficult group accessible despite the circumstances or, better yet, more accessible because of what has happened in their families.
With the earl imprisoned ONE MORE BITE OF THE APPLE has taken on a more professional tone, more of a literary blog than the mad blatherings of a novelist without portfolio or with the sort of portfolio that might land Newt on the cover of Vogue. This alteration had driven fans in some countries, Japan, for example, away while pulling some of the Eastern Bloc, Italy and Germany. Again our solid coterie of retirees in Costa Rica seem to visit no matter what’s going on, a tribute to the effects of retirement or the diminished state of daytime television. I don’t think Oprah discusses Mothra that often because if she did this blog would be out of business.
I’m trying to think of a creative way to make this more interesting, to focus on authors featured here even when they don’t have a new release. This thought is enshrined in its very own paragraph since it is unrelated to Mothra, Oprah, things to do in Costa Rica. What shall we do with this thing?
August 24th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
I think you need to expand readership by getting controversial and engaging in mad, ad hominem attacks.
Not to mention posting nude celeb pix. I just Googled “Parker Posey” and “nude”, and your blog doesn’t show up anywhere in the 123,000 hits. (Not to mention the 7,980,000 hits on a similar search regarding Britney Spears.)
So, I’m suggesting a column accusing someone–maybe Ian Rankin, hardly matters whom–of ghostwriting James Frey’s pseudo-memoirs, profusely illustrated with exclusive nude photos of Oprah (fake or otherwise).
People go to auto races to see crashes. Dispense with all this thoughtful and courteous discourse. Not once has you accused one of your interviewees of plagiarism, or killing JonBenet Ramsey.
Get with the program, Dave.