Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Pomoes

substitute righteously calls our attention to this Dale Peck review of a Rick Moody book which shows us that we're not the only ones.

When I finished The Black Veil I scrawled "Lies! Lies! All lies!" on the cover and considered my job done.

Hee and well-known hee.

Warning: Joyce himself is excoriated. I get all shivery just thinking about it.

Pearlies

The gentle author of Spitalfields Life attends the harvest festival of the Pearlies at St. Mary-le-Bow, within the sound of whose bells a true Cockney must live.
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