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We need to talk about Alec, but can’t

By Scott McKenzie April 11, 2017 In News, Rants 0 No tags 0

The discussion about actor Alec Baldwin’s recently published memoir Nevertheless perfectly encapsulates why reasonable conversation is impossible in this culture at the moment.

Is celebrity more important than fighting racism?

By Scott McKenzie March 28, 2017 In Rants 0 No tags 0

Sometimes pop culture just breaks your heart.

I like to believe that I’m not an old fogey who spends all his time on the porch bitching about kids today.

Would You Sell a Letter?

By Scott McKenzie April 4, 2016 In Rants 1 No tags 0

The news of a completed auction for a 1990 Harper Lee letter about Donald Trump made me contemplate the whole notion of selling correspondence.

Biggs Says DRM Sucks

By Scott McKenzie July 1, 2014 In Rants 0 No tags 0

Well, I’m probably exaggerating a bit with that “sucks” choice of words. But suffice it to say,

The Rants of Gordon Lish

By Scott McKenzie June 23, 2014June 22, 2014 In Rants 0 No tags 0

Under normal circumstances, I would be ecstatic that the great Barry Hannah gets a mention —

Conservative Book Publishing on the Wane, So Cruz Gets $1.5M

By Scott McKenzie April 8, 2014 In Deals, Rants 0 No tags 0

Little more than two weeks after a widely circulated article on the fading of a genre, “Killing Conservative Books: The Shocking End of a Publishing Gold Rush that discussed “the gutting of the conservative book market”