Apparently, I am participating in the Literary Trivia Smackdown at the 21st Annual Indie and Small Press Book Fair here in NYC. It's going to be Ed, Sarah, Levi and myself, representing the lit bloggers, versus a bunch of punks from PEN America who are SO going DOWN. The book fair is free for all and runs both Saturday and Sunday this weekend at the General Society, 20 W44th St. in Manhattan. The Smackdown is on Sunday at 4pm.
The New York Review of Books already ran from us with their tail between their legs. Now we're going to treat PEN like Plaxico treated his own leg. Boo ya!
?That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,? he says. ?They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.?
Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, which described the financial problems going on in the 1980's, returns to talk about what went wrong this time. Here are the gory details of the sub-prime market and the story of one hedge fund manager who saw it all coming, shorted the whole mess, and told everyone what was going to happen as loudly as he could. No one was listening, and his own shorts helped fuel the ever-more-self-destructive system.
Via Austin Bunn
While we do toil each day to bring you a bigger & better website, we would likely go numskull if we did it twenty-four hours a day. Here's a round-up of some of our favorite links for this week:
*You begged your mom to pay the extra $4
*It's a little late for tears, isn't it, Barbara?
*Apocalypse Chow: Cooking in the End Times
*A contender for best kitty video ever
*Small glimpses, technical glitches
*For when you want people to remember that you were never going to get laid
Enjoy.
-Sarah-
