You Shall Know My Animosity

In two sentences the Slate Book Club discussion of You Shall Know Our Velocity manages not only to give away the ending of Dave Eggers' new novel, but also the ending of a J.D. Salinger story I'd started to read but never finished.

Despite that, it's an interesting analysis of Dave Eggers as a writer and literary celebrity. There's a brief discussion of Eggers' insistence on a particular reading of AHWOSG (an appendix in the paperback version; I own the hardback so I haven't read it myself) and his distaste of critics, which reminded me a little of David Foster Wallace's new sincerity movement except with the responsibility for maintaining that sincerity forced upon the reader. (Does that make any sense at all?)

Anyway, if, like me, you haven't yet read YSKOV (or finished "Seymour: An Introduction"), you'll want to avoid the last paragraphs of James Surowiecki's Thursday entry.