MacKenzie Bezos has a new book out. Clearly, the fact that MacKenzie is married to Jeff Bezos has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with this fawning interview at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Clearly, the fact that Amazon is based in Seattle has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the apparent urgency to get Mrs. Bezos precious column inches that could have gone to Kelly Link, Christopher Sorrentino, Lee Martin, or Kirby Gann. This interview was clearly intended to reflect the most seminal concerns for furthering humanities of our age!
And I guess that makes Kate Bolick’s in the NYTBR a hand job.
Shoot. I meant to say “mostly positive review” and provide the link, but there wasn’t a preview button to let me check my coding.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E3D8103CF934A3575BC0A9639C8B63&n=Top%2fFeatures%2fBooks%2fBook%20Reviews
If John Marshall were really fawning over Mackenzie Bezos, he wouldnn’t have gone on to say, “[T]his novel lives and dies with its annoying narrator. Having to listen to this anal-retentive worrywart second guess the minutest elements of his daily life makes fingernails on a blackboard sound like sweet music.”
But add Jennifer Reese of EW to the fan club. I’m the first person to raise questions about Amazon, but I’m willing to believe that a Princeton-trained author might have managed to write a decent book.
And a Seattle paper writing about a Seattle author? Shocking in its provincialism!