Re: The awarding of the Man Booker International Prize to Philip Roth. The Economist is all meh about the controversy, generally supports the decision, and notes that the judge who quit in protest had published a book by a former Mrs. Roth about how horrible her marriage to Roth was. But that same judge claims that Roth's work, in its totality, I guess, is equivalent to having the author sitting on one's face. Which is really not a sexy image at all.
Maybe appropriate given that the world is going to end in a few: More e-books sold by Amazon and another publisher than printed books.
Re: The big debate over whether MFA Creative Writing Programs are worthwhile: Laura Miller of Salon weighs in on this fight between the London Review of Books (MFAs bad) and the Los Angeles Review of Books (MFAs good). Given that I have an MFA, I choose to live in the world where having this degree is actually a thing that is good, and also in this world I have limitless vanilla lattes and a big house.
Uhhh Lewis Black rants about how hard it is to write a book. What can I say, I have X-files on in the background and it's distracting.
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