Rich blend of fiction, memory, folk-tale and political idea
Maxine Hong Kingston will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Contribution award. Jacket Copy has more.
Maxine Hong Kingston will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Contribution award. Jacket Copy has more.
I’ve enjoyed watching the pundits try to parse Sarah Palin’s Christianity. Their favorite refrain is that you can’t hold the VP candidate responsible for what the Jews for Jesus guy said, since he’s not a member of her church. This is all well and good, except that in my (comparatively vast) experience, most modern-day fundamentalists — especially Pentecostals and members . . .
Below John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s online, author of So You Want to Be President? and Fondling Your Muse, and creative director of the struggling TOW Books, explains why he’s rejecting the age-old strategy of sending review copies to newspapers, and offering them to you instead. I knew when I founded a humor imprint a couple years ago that . . .
Sarah Palin & the Jews: Fundamentalists attempt to cast the VP candidate / former Pentecostal in the role of modern-day Esther.