“ I wouldn’t want to read romances all the time, of course, but still, all those smoking-hot virgins liquefying in the arms of their swarthy, unyielding seducers — that’s excellent! ”
jack murnighan, the author of Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits, on his guilty pleasure: romance novels. i have, mayhaps, too many guilty reading pleasures, though mine aren’t quite the same as mr. murnighan’s. (npr)
“ Call me an ignorant Swede, but the last thing I thought possible in the U.S. was that you banned books. ”
silly, swede. we don’t ban books in america, we “challenge” them. get with the freedom semantics. quote courtesy of 33 year old swedish author who wrote an unofficial sequel to catcher in the rye, “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.” said book was recently banned in the US. huh, i guess we do ban books afterall. weird.
cotopaxi (live)- mars volta
happiness. they should announce tour dates for america. soon.
