This story is way old, but I just realized there is no online record of the article I’d written last year on the Beauchamp scandal, in which I tried to capture the “big picture.” Here it is…
My review of Pierre Bayard’s “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” is up at National Review Online.
I bemoan Stephen King at American Spectator Online today. The piece is directed at his literary sermons, not his novels, so you might be interested even if you haven’t read them.
It begins thusly:
Just when I faced the possibility of being starved of spooks this Halloween season, along came Stephen King.
King, of course, is well-practiced at supplying spooks. I’m not talking about his novels. Those aren’t nearly as scary as his occasional forays into literary sermonizing, which should appall anyone who cares about the state of American sensibility.
