Saturday, November 10, 2007

Idiotic headline writers

The online AP story about Mailer's death begins with the headline "Biographer Norman Mailer" ... to call him "a biographer" is like calling Joyce Carol Oates a book reviewer. Where do they get these people?

2 comments:

Julie said...

Here's a title for you. "Norman Mailer: The Most Overrated Writer of the 20th Century"
http://www.edrants.com/?p=7028

Charles Deemer said...

Sure didn't take long for them to start pissing on his grave.