[lbo-talk] 10 charts...

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Apr 22 12:44:13 PDT 2011


On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:14:26 +0200 // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:


> On Apr 22, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


> >> (Rushdie, Satanic Verses)
> >
> > I always said that guy was tone-deaf. World's second most
> > overrated writer (after Saul Bellow).
> >
> I assume you mean "high brow" writers (for if not
> you forget the recently discussed Ayn Rand,

I did. Even people who like Ayn Rand don't talk about her as a *writer* -- they think she's a *thinker*, fer Chrissake.

Oh and second the motion about Naipaul. Ugh!

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