Posted
9:32 AM
by Gene
The Hemingway of his generation issues a collection of his newspaper immortalities, and uses the occasion to get even:The dates were crucial, lest some worn-out old whore like Jonathan Yardley over at the Washington Post use the opportunity to gratuitously insult the author's work ethic.Let me guess who wrote a pan. Now even granting that Pete may be God's literary gift to man that he'd take the time to write this ode makes me wonder if he wonders. And in this age of cultural genius, he has a right to wonder.
Especially when his critically-acclaimed award winner about a trout or whatever is
93,506 on Amazon.com and
The Sun Also Rises is
1,573 is in one of its editions, conceding as we do these numbers aren't worth that much.
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