The Devil’s Bargain

Daniel Green at The Reading Experience replies to Kassia Krozser, who is “baffled and amazed by authors who do not see marketing as part of their jobs.”
If they’ve (publishers) let their business practices spiral out of control, whose fault is that, exactly? Should we really compound this failure by now chastising those writers who [...]



Jeanette Winterson

The Times Online has a nice piece imagining a reading list for capitalists:
Right now, I would like to put every City trader and master-of-the universe banker into an offshore penal colony where they would have to make their own clothes out of copies of The Wall Street Journal, cook a ration of rice in a [...]



Jerry Falwell’s good and dead but there are several others of similar ilk still around.

feminism: ‘ . . . a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.’

Debi Alper has the whole story on her blog . . .

ps. The funeral is on Tuesday. Republican leaders and hecklers welcome.

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The Retreat from Common Sense

Australian playwright David Williamson has some interesting things to say about his fellow countrymen and the corporate world. Though, to be fair, his comments could apply to any other western country.
Speaking at a launch party for Shelley Gare’s book, The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense, Williamson said that chief executives on [...]






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