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The all-too-public love that dare not speak its name

posted by Zed on January 13 2003 19:35

The Puffies: 2002's most inflated dust jacket blurbs.

Tariq Ali on Terry Eagleton's memoir The Gatekeeper: "Impaled on a crucifix, Eagleton winks, calmly removes the nails and steps down to shape his own history."

To no surprise, it ignores sf, which is, if anything, probably even more incestuous than mainstream fiction publishing. It wouldn't be any great feat to collect similarly ridiculous hyperbole within the genre.

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