Mr. willshetterly

I very much enjoyed rereading Dogland recently. And your wife's book Territory was one of my favorites for last year. Your being a jackass is making it exceedingly hard for me to justify buying more of either of your works in the future. Please stop...

Oh my

On a slightly lighter literary note follow the links in the entry by cofax7 to see a would-be writer take his potential career out in back of the barn, bludgeon it to death and then light it on fire. All over a one-sentence "review" that amounted to "this story didn't work for me". Its both sad and amusing in a trainwreck kind of way...

The Ladykillers

The Coen's remake isn't as bad as I'd heard. Tom Hanks is entrancing if over the top. And Marlon Wayans is only mildly annoying, always an accomplishment for him. But the final act, as the gang of thieves attempts to do in Hank's elderly landlady is farcical in its stupidity. Also picking Bob Jones University as Mrs. Munson's favorite charity, given their stance up until 2000 on interracial dating, seems in poor taste...