Look, Michiko, Just Write a Damn Novel Already
When NYT book reviewer Michiko Kakutani took on the voice of Holden Caufield two months ago to review Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision, we all sort of shook our heads politely. After all, longtime readers knew it was an intermittently recurring tic of hers—remember the time she pretended to be Ally McBeal reviewing Bridget Jones?—and we just figured, okay, it’s out of her system for another year or so.
But, no: It’s only been two months, and she’s channeling Holly Golightly to review Truman Capote’s resurrected Summer Morning. Readers who dare follow this link will be forgiven the urge to claw out their own eyes in horror.
24 October 2005 | theory |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
