Michiko's Gone Maaaaaaaaaaad!
June 19, 2003 10:38 AM Subscribe
Michiko Kukatani goes whacky! (NYT Reg Required) Maybe all the craziness at the NYT is taking its toll, but everyone's favorite high-brow book bully reviews Candace Bushnell's (Sex and The City chick's) new book as a letter from...Elle Woods?!
That is really, really weird.
Also weird is that when I was still in publishing I was at a conference with Candace Bushnell and my co-workers and I realized she had different size breasts at different times of the day. At a conference one morning she had the ones you see in the NYT picture and in the evening at dinner they were noticeably larger. I always thought that accessories were earrings or a scarf, not breasts, but maybe we're a little behind the times in California. That said she was a nice woman and a good pool player.
posted by Woolcott'sKindredGal at 11:09 AM on June 19, 2003
Also weird is that when I was still in publishing I was at a conference with Candace Bushnell and my co-workers and I realized she had different size breasts at different times of the day. At a conference one morning she had the ones you see in the NYT picture and in the evening at dinner they were noticeably larger. I always thought that accessories were earrings or a scarf, not breasts, but maybe we're a little behind the times in California. That said she was a nice woman and a good pool player.
posted by Woolcott'sKindredGal at 11:09 AM on June 19, 2003
Kakutani's review is gimmicky and amateurish and I would have rejected it if I were the editor and it was anyone but Kakutani. Any book issued in good faith deserves a good faith review in the reviewer's own voice.
posted by Faze at 12:20 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by Faze at 12:20 PM on June 19, 2003
Wow. I didn't understand a word of that.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 12:29 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 12:29 PM on June 19, 2003
To: Michiko Kukatani
From: Your own fundament
RE: "Trading Up" review
Ow.
posted by rusty at 12:37 PM on June 19, 2003
From: Your own fundament
RE: "Trading Up" review
Ow.
posted by rusty at 12:37 PM on June 19, 2003
Well, you pretty much know going into a Kakutani review that she's going to act superior to whoever's work it is she's reviewing. So I suppose this is just her way of acknowledging that if she really, truly wants to harsh on someone, she needs to pretend she's someone who wouldn't necessarily be superior, so that that way when, pretending, she still acts superior, it actually means something.
(Assuming, of course, you care.)
posted by mattpfeff at 12:39 PM on June 19, 2003
(Assuming, of course, you care.)
posted by mattpfeff at 12:39 PM on June 19, 2003
The same sort of bogus review technique is exactly why Pitchfork drives me nuts.
posted by COBRA! at 2:43 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by COBRA! at 2:43 PM on June 19, 2003
hmmm...i somehow remember Carrie on SATC hoping for Michiko Kakutani to review her book...could this be virtual/reality synergy at last?
posted by serafinapekkala at 2:46 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by serafinapekkala at 2:46 PM on June 19, 2003
Umm, no one's lynching anyone ed. And Michiko's a she. And it's alliteration. Thank you.
posted by adrober at 2:57 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by adrober at 2:57 PM on June 19, 2003
"Yup, here's your problem. Someone set this thing to ``Evil''.
posted by asterisk at 4:15 PM on June 19, 2003
posted by asterisk at 4:15 PM on June 19, 2003
Illiteration is much better. Plenty of reviewers pepper their reviews with illiteration.
posted by Furie at 9:42 AM on June 20, 2003
posted by Furie at 9:42 AM on June 20, 2003
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