With a shelf life of two to four weeks, good timing is a matter of life and death (or profit and loss) in the publishing business. The Los Angeles Times' reviewer went as far as to say it was a "bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical " No wonder, it sells! So was Ann Coulter's latest diatribe against the Liberals, Treason: The Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. Chris Hedges' War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, with his subliminal machismo, was selling briskly, we were told. It trickles down the pipeline toward Hollywood, all the way to book publishers and authors.Įnticing titles competed for the buyers' attention. War is money - and not just for the military-industrial complex. There, on a five-foot square table dedicated to "Current Events," laid some 50 different works, each neatly piled in small bundles of a few copies, a majority of which was about war and US power. Roy's short collection of essays, War Talk, we made one of our customary visits to Kepler's, our wonderful local bookstore in Menlo Park, CA. A week or so after having received a review copy of Ms. Supporting our local businesses is sort of a civic duty in this household. Swans Commentary: Arundhati Roy's "War Talk," by Gilles d'Aymery - ga159 SwansĪrundhati Roy's War Talk Book Review by Gilles d'Aymery
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