[lbo-talk] eXile

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Thu Feb 25 09:21:31 PST 2010


Apologizes for butchering the man's name (Taibbi), but as for Ames, I will give *Going Postal* a read at some point. What I know of him is only from *The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel* collection.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
> wrote:


> Read the Exiled collection and tell honestly that Ames' stuff stands up
> nicely next to Taibbai's. I use to not mind his stuff in high school, but
> he's really just a spiteful, self-absorbed, more libertarian than leftist,
> loser. Taibbai on the other-hand is very talented and politically astute.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Lenin's Tomb <
> leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara
>> <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > Mark Ames sucks. Self-absorbed misogynist who can't write a lick.
>> >
>>
>> This is just gratuitous. I don't know whether Ames is a misogynist, but
>> he
>> clearly is a very talented writer and, what is more, politically sharper
>> than most Amreekan radicals. 'Going Postal' is a really ground-breaking
>> book.
>>
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