Garrison Keiller goes to town on Bernad-Henri Levy’s new book on America: “In more than 300 pages, nobody tells a joke. Nobody does much work. Nobody sits and eats and enjoys their food. You’ve lived all your life in America, never attended a megachurch or a brothel, don’t own guns, are non-Amish, and it dawns on you that this is a book about the French. There’s no reason for it to exist in English, except as evidence that travel need not be broadening and one should be wary of books with Tocqueville in the title.”
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American Vertigo?
01.31.06 | 4 Comments
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That review was awesome.
Heheh. I like Garrison so much better in print than on air. He’s so much more bitter and mean. :-)
Maybe he’s just pissed that Levy didn’t plug Prarie Home Companion in the book. After all, what is more “strong and very pliable, extremely tenacious and in the end somewhat empty” than Lake Wobegone?
Too true, too true.
I’ve often gotten the impression I’m a bad “NPR liberal” because I can’t stand
the Guy Noir showPraire Home.. It’s just always seemed vacuous to me, yet oddly chewy, like a bad piece of steak.