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Recall last summer: it was the summer of Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, the most important book liked by people wearing the most important-looking glasses. It seems O’Neill has journeyed from that wire-rimmed menagerie of the psyche to Politics & Prose, where all such odysseys of the soul must, and do, eventually terminate. Plus, David Makovsky is a gentleman who will be arguing that some of the US’s terrible Middle East policies really came about because of “miscommunications.” Obviously this is terrific news, as it is written in the Social Contract that if a problem occurs because of a Miscommunication, alcohol or a lack of cell phone reception, then no party can be held accountable, for anything. Twitter.com/socialcontract (1762), by Rousseau. Look it up.
Monday, June 22:
- Oh shit yo, Joseph O’Neill is stopping by Politics & Prose this evening to talk about his book Netherland. Subsequent What-We-Talk-About-When-We-Talk-About-A-”9/11 Novel”-themed mingle not recommended. Get there early to avoid Granta totebag logjams. SNARK. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Personified I Love the 90s episode Cokie Roberts has a new book called Ladies of Liberty, the never-before-told story of the female leads in Barry Levinson’s 1999 comedy, Liberty Heights. [Hooks Books Events]
Wednesday, June 24:
- Do not miss David Makovsky’s promised Middle East miscommunications apologia. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
- Washington Post reporter Colbert King is concerned about America’s literacy deficiency and you can be too! Hear him out. 6 PM. [Busboys & Poets]
Thursday, June 25:
- What happens when America ends? Some say fire, some say ice, Paul Starobin posits various scenarios ranging from global chaos to the opposite of global chaos. 7 PM [Politics & Prose]
Friday, June 26:
- TO DO: “Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath” because Friday is date night. 7 PM. [Politics & Prose]
Hate sex. Tears in the darkness. Walk of shame. I remember it well.
I read this post 5 times and I still can’t made head nor tails of it. Now I’m punching my dick. Please advise.
Banzai77:
You’re punching your dick wrong. Put a roll of quarters in your fist - or maybe pour some iron shards into a gym sock, and use that.
Banzai77: It’s like Inside Baseball if baseball was actually played by a bunch of George Will clones.
Banzai77: Cokie hasn’t had that effect on a man, even tangentally, in a long, long time.
What the hell, did I miss something? Recently-departed Intern Juli has returned already, all growed up on the masthead as Editor Juli?!
Well this is certainly a felicitous way to start a Monday.
Juli, this really is far to literate for us. Please dumb it down and include alt-text.
Alt-text suggestion: “Solipsism”
‘Cuz Peggy Noonington used it and I had to look it up, and why not?
I am still not making the connection between WALL-E and Cokie Roberts. Have I missed an important article on her social proclivities?
Sigh — remember the good old days when if we couldn’t understand a foreigner it was their fault for not speaking English better than we did? Those damn liberals and their plans to go and understand everybody — ick.
Hmm… just looked up the blurb for Netherland… lonely foreign cricket-loving equities analyst in Brooklyn gets mixed up with the Russian mob. HOLY SHIAT THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE.
I’m buying this book right now. Thanks Editor Juli.
The Bataan Death March book sounds like a grad student wrote the title, which means real ‘murkins won’t touch it. Needs more zazz, like The Bataan Death March or The Case of the Frozen Chicken. You know, the way all great mysteries used to be titled.
Banzai77: I’m with ya there, brohemian! This post reads like one of those “Private Eye” columns in the 1960s, filled with cryptic references only the editors of “Private Eye” could get.
So sad, Juli doing the Wonkette gig while waiting for a real job as a Book Review editor for a Real Publication. Good luck with those applications, girl! (I’d advise a gimmick, like dropping yourself in a library book bin.)