Jay is a deeply unhappy man. His wife has left him, his girlfriend has left him, he has lost his job as a high-school teacher, he works as a day laborer and has declared personal bankruptcy, he spends his days reading blogs. (About the deranging influence of blogs Baker makes a sterling point.)Leon Wieseltier, reviewing Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint: A Novel in "'Checkpoint': Nicholson Baker's Wild Talk" (The New York Times).
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So you DO believe the New York Times. I might've guessed as much.
Posted by: stephenesque | August 10, 2004 at 10:06 AM
No, I'm just deranged.
Posted by: Outer Life | August 10, 2004 at 05:35 PM
I like quite a bit of Wieseltier's writings, especially Kaddish, but he is insufferable. Senior editors of the New Republic should be a little careful lecturing others about what constitutes proper journalism.
Blogs are just wind, but, as Montaigne said, we are all just wind anyway. (Insert joke about breaking wind here.)
Posted by: Eddie Thomas | August 10, 2004 at 08:53 PM