Book Review AND Book Review

I reviewed Working Knowledge, by Petr Král and The Illustrated Version of Things, by Affinity Konar several months ago and the RCF printed them despite the fact that there is at least one embarrassing phrase and an instance in which I may not actually be using a real word.

Extra points though for whoreson.

A funny sort

"Papaya farmers can be a funny sort. Ask them if they’d rather have a boy or girl, and without hesitation every last one of them will say “hermaphrodite”—if they’re talking about papayas, of course."

Pnin Cover by Jerzy Faczynski

Who would say something like, this is the "best Nabokov cover I've ever seen--blows the sh**ty Vintage/Random House motif out of the water?"

Well, I would, and did, and there weren't any asterisks in there at the time.

Beall, owner of Ruby Tuesday, on their "transformation"

“We lost about 5 percent to 8 percent of our base by upgrading, mostly at lower income levels,” he says with a shrug. “Very few people miss the roller skates on the wall and the bad food.”