Skeptic
3rd July 2006, 02:05 AM
From www.bookforum.com , a writers' and poets' quarterly journal (September 2006 issue):
ARTS & LETTERS
Justin Spring on Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme's My Life in France
Rachel Shteir on Marshall Berman's On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Gerald Early on Joe Drape's Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
Marjorie Perloff on Edward Timms's Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-war Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika
Michael Roth on Jean Paulhan's The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
Robert S. Boynton on Eric Lott's The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual and David S. Brown's Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
L. P. Harvey on Natalie Zemon Davis's Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
The poetry of Guantánamo Bay's detainees
See if you can figure out which one it is :D
And, feel free to add your own examples :D :D
P.S.
Not really the point of my post, but... note to self: don't read any book whose title is of the "Cute meaningless title - colon - longer title that actually says what the book is about" sort. If they can't figure out they could just cut out the cute meaningless title and just say the same thing, what are the chances the book's editing is any good?
Let's see:
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
There. MUCH better.
ARTS & LETTERS
Justin Spring on Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme's My Life in France
Rachel Shteir on Marshall Berman's On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Gerald Early on Joe Drape's Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
Marjorie Perloff on Edward Timms's Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-war Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika
Michael Roth on Jean Paulhan's The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
Robert S. Boynton on Eric Lott's The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual and David S. Brown's Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
L. P. Harvey on Natalie Zemon Davis's Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
The poetry of Guantánamo Bay's detainees
See if you can figure out which one it is :D
And, feel free to add your own examples :D :D
P.S.
Not really the point of my post, but... note to self: don't read any book whose title is of the "Cute meaningless title - colon - longer title that actually says what the book is about" sort. If they can't figure out they could just cut out the cute meaningless title and just say the same thing, what are the chances the book's editing is any good?
Let's see:
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
There. MUCH better.