digital emunction

Once more, from J R:

those son of a bitches who still think winning’s what it’s all about give them a string of high p e ratios and a rising market it’s all free enterprise all they howl about’s government restraints interference double taxation, all free enterprise till they wreck the whole thing they’re the first ones up there with a tin cup whining for the government to bail them out with a loan guarantee so they can do it all over again…

From William Gaddis’s JR:

Yes no but of course in terms of the ongoing situation down to the bank the inferences of a story like this one are ahm…Yes the suggestion of ahm, of an overabundance of home improvement loans and mortgage risks calculated to undermine confidence in terms of the ahm, investment confidence on the part of investors that is to say which is hardly fair to…and yes well in the case of home mortgages like this which are insured by County Land and Title there should be no…no yes I know the premiums are high but of course the element of ahm…Yes no I wasn’t going to say risk of course but…

The Maytrees, Annie Dillard’s new novel, is out. An ever-expanding list of reviews follows. Annie read a passage of the novel for NPR and talked a little about the book (whose original subtitle was “A Romantic Comedy about Light Pollution”) in a Publishers Weekly interview. She did another interview with the Washington Post’s Daniel Asa Rose. A chapter of the book originally showed up as “The Two of Them” in the Nov ‘03 Harper’s.

Here’s the list of reviews:

+Washington Post Book World (by Marilynne Robinson)

+New York Times

+NYT Book Review

+Boston Globe

+LA Times

+SF Chronicle

+Slate

+BookPage

+Publishers Weekly

+New York Observer

+New York Daily News

+Miami Herald

+Seattle Times

+Cape Cod Times

+Cleveland Plain Dealer

+Chicago Tribune

+USA Today

+Hartford Courant

+San Diego Union-Tribune

+Washington Post (where Annie runs neck and neck with Toby Keith)

Buy it from your local independent bookstore or support this site by ordering a copy from Amazon.

Wu Ming’s new novel Manituana has just been published in Italy. Readers of Italian can download the whole book and readers of Italian or Spanish can visit the book’s website. This can’t be the first book to have its own trailer, but it’s the first I’ve seen.

You can download the rest of Wu Ming’s books at their website, including my translations of their stories “In Like Flynn” and “The Emperor’s Three Hundred Woodcutters”. You can also find an interview I did with the group for Chicago Review’s 60th anniversary issue.