[lbo-talk] David Brooks: sad, lonely, pathetic

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
><http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/08/31/the_dope_on_prolific_writers/>
>
>[Christopher] Buckley worries that, somewhere, someone is more prolific 
>than he. He even knows who that someone is: David Brooks, New York Times 
>columnist, book writer, magazine contributor, and PBS talking head. "He's 
>in every issue of The Atlantic Monthly, then he's on the TV show, and he 
>gives speeches on the side," says Buckley, sounding overmatched. "I'd like 
>to know what he's on."
>
>Returning my call from a taxicab -- "I'm just finishing off a piece right 
>here," he jokes -- Brooks is a tad sensitive about his Stakhanovite 
>literary output. "I'm slightly embarrassed," he admits. "It suggests a high 
>level of hackdom." So what is he taking? "Nothing chemical, it's mostly 
>psychological," he explains. "I would explain my high productivity by my 
>desperate loneliness and my pathetic sadness that causes me work to extreme 
>lengths to fill the hollow void that is my life."

Whatever.  I think his byline should be Babbling Brooks.

Carl