Hissy Cat: Book Booty

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September 23, 2005

Book Booty

Oprah's book club is back. She's going back to the contemporary works format where authors come on the show to discuss their work* with Queen O and her audience. She'll be adding non-fiction writers into the mix, too. However heartening I find this news to be-- and I do find it heartening; any effort to introduce people to new books can't be a bad thing, and I'm even keener on the idea of fostering discussions about books and ideas among people largely excluded, or at least overlooked, from these kinds of exchanges-- I'm not sure the the publishing business angle that the Times took covering in the piece is the one I most cared to read about. I'm not convinced, either, that the story is important enough to necessitate cover-page placement, even if Friday is a historically light news day at papers, but, hey, it's better than front-page stories on sports. Small beans, my complaints, small beans.

What I'm really, really looking forward to is the dishy, salacious tome on the scandalous sex lives of The Frog and The Beaver, Tete-a-Tete: Simeone de Beouvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley, which Louis Menand writes about in this week's New Yorker. I love this sort of thing, love it; the scrumptious combination of tabloid sexpose and bookfest dorkfest. Sapphic affairs, threesomes, incest fantasies, harems of groupies, sexual competition, deception, seduction, Dangerous Liasons style mind-fucks. What more could a girl ask for? (Suicide, psychosis, male homosexuality and/ or murder, but, hey, I'm not complaining.)

Posted by hissycat at September 23, 2005 11:39 PM

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