I've been much amused by a "controversy" on HuffPo's Books tab (
http://huff.to/aBXRkC). Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner whine about getting rich from Chick-lit tripe—but they're not respected! Wah! Maybe because they're both hacks who jackhammer books out of cliché-infested wood. Neither remotely rises to Allen Ginsberg's Howl lines about his Beat brethren:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets ...
Published on August 26, 2010 15:45