The Monday Morning Books-Blogging Post

This week: Graham Greene, David Foster Wallace, Bad Sex, and More

• What does "Smells Like Teen Spirit" have in common with "More Than a Feeling"? It's Malcolm Gladwell on plagiarism.  [The New Yorker]
• The secret key to unlocking David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: it can be yours, too.  [Rake's Progress]
• Lily Tuck wins the National Book Award for her novel The News from Paraguay: a collection of coverage by big-media publications.  [The Elegant Variation]
• More about the NBA: all the winners and finalists in a single list.  [Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind]
• Thinking about using Google Scholar?  Think again.  [Return of the Reluctant]
• Are the sex scenes in novels so bad that the good ones should be rewarded?  [Guardian Unlimited; link from Maud Newton]
• The end of the affair: a review of the third volume of David Lodge's biography of Graham Greene.  [The New York Times Review of Books]
  

Comments

[Dan]

Want to use Google Scholar? Think again, eh?

This from the same blogger whose previous entry is "4 bitches down, one to go," things that make you go "Hmm..."

-D