John Clayton's Blog

Some fun stuff on the Web recently:

Steven Johnson on Aaron Sorkin:

if we're going to have fictions in our fictions, I'd rather they revolve around people being too clever, rather than, say, being genetic mutants with superpowers.

The Columbia Journalism Review on my favorite author J. Anthony Lukas:

For all of Common Ground’s reportorial and literary strengths, it is Lukas’s ability to put his readers in other people’s shoes that gives the book its enduring power.

America's greatest "Cheers" scholar, Lance Mannion:

Lilith goes on a TV talk show to promote her new book, Good Girls, Bad Boys---the title was her editor's idea; she wanted to call it "A Cross-sectional Study of Control Group Females With a Tendency Towards Self-Destruction Vis-a-vis Damaging Relationships With Members of the Opposite Sex."

As Woody says, "Oh brother! Not another one of those."

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