https://booksquare.com/a-portrait-of-the-author-as-a-cranky-old-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=a-portrait-of-the-author-as-a-cranky-old-man Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:59:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://booksquare.com/a-portrait-of-the-author-as-a-cranky-old-man/#comment-120855 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:59:02 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/03/30/1880/#comment-120855 Personally, I don’t mind him being cranky. He’s old, he’s got his Nobel. Annie Proulx’ sour grapes column in the Guardian after Crash won Best Picture struck me as more distasteful, yet even that was fascinating — the way a truly established writer can be publicly Naughty and the media’s response is complete indulgence . . .

]]> https://booksquare.com/a-portrait-of-the-author-as-a-cranky-old-man/#comment-120810 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:57:51 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/03/30/1880/#comment-120810 Thank God he hasn’t read Carmen Elektra.

]]> https://booksquare.com/a-portrait-of-the-author-as-a-cranky-old-man/#comment-120805 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:52:10 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/03/30/1880/#comment-120805 Well, as long as we are confessing here I couldn’t finish A House for Mr. Biswas. I know a lot of people liked it, but I just couldn’t get into it.

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