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Michael Schaub of Bookslut failed economics
There's something really irritating about discovering that books you love are out of print. Even though used bookstores, and sites like Abebooks, Alibris and Powell's have made it pretty easy to find them, it sucks that the publishing industry has given up on some great work from some great authors, while books like M is for Murder and N is for No, Seriously, Murder and O is for Oh My God Someone Just Got Murdered are readily available at every chain bookstore in the land. You might say that there's a good economic reason for this, to which I respond: I failed economics, bitches. So take that!
Here is the link.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 27, 2006 at 02:21 AM in Books | Permalink
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Looks like Jessa Crispin failed too.
Posted by: Jonas Cord at Jul 27, 2006 12:41:23 PM
There's something inherently funny about the word bitches used in a thoroughly non-sexist way.
Posted by: The Truth at Jul 27, 2006 1:21:28 PM
This reminds me of Antonia Fraser's assertion, in her biography of Cromwell, that the execution of Charles I "may have been necessary, but it certainly was not right." Huh? How could something that is truly necessary not be right? Does she mean it wasn't "nice"?
Posted by: John P. at Jul 27, 2006 1:30:14 PM
The Jessa Crispin post is funny. Apparently working at Wal-Mart gives Ehrenreich super-duper credibility that a mere "scholar" can't compete with. But we are to accept Ehrenreich's batty conclusions about Wal-Mart and ignore the fact that 40 people applied for every slot that the new location in Chicago wanted to hire. I guess working at Wal-Mart only makes you smart and believable if you just happen to end up agreeing with trendy anti-big-box-store conventional wisdom.
Posted by: asg at Jul 27, 2006 2:55:43 PM
The Clayton Moore article on Ian Fleming's Bond novels is great, too.
http://www.bookslut.com/mystery_strumpet/2006_07_009348.php
My favourite line:
"Enjoying Bond is like enjoying Sinatra; your toes might tap but in the back of your mind you realize someone, somewhere, is going to get their legs broken."
I had never read that site until today. Thanks for the pointer.
Posted by: Josh at Jul 27, 2006 4:12:01 PM
Schaub is hilarious. I get a LOL out of him at least once a week.
As for right v. necessary, I guess John P. failed Kant class? ;)
Posted by: Anderson at Jul 27, 2006 5:17:50 PM
check out the Center for Book Culture (www.centerforbookculture.org) a literature nonprofit whose mission is to take exceptional out-of-print books and put them back in print. Forever.
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