Monday, October 17, 2005

Sycophantic Overstatement of the Week

Over the past decade or so, Walter Kirn has been to literary journalism what Bill Gates is to software.
--NY Times
review of Kirn's new novel

I think not.

Try: Over the past decade or so, Walter Kirn has been to macho overwriting what Hemingway is to macho understatement.

Except that Hemingway is a good writer.

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