It saddens me that so many talented writers are overlooked, while someone like Julie Powell receives so much ill-deserved glory. Her first book, Julie & Julia, was based on an interesting concept – making every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Unfortunately, Powell’s writing was so full of Me-Me-Me! as to make her book unreadable. Notwithstanding the fact that there was very little cooking and very little Julia in it.
Now Powell has come out with Cleaving, a book about her apprenticeship at a butcher and about her having an affair.
Please do all the good writers out there a favor and ignore both of Powell’s books. Many more worthy authors deserve your attention.
13 December 2009
My One-Word Summation of the Tiger Woods Story
Scumbag.
Now, can we please move on to some substantive news, and stop celebrating (and rewarding) bad behavior.
Now, can we please move on to some substantive news, and stop celebrating (and rewarding) bad behavior.
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