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more about #michikokakutani more comments → Uncle_Billy_Slumming: August in winter Trillin rakes decaying leaves Michiko just farts more » aloysius: yes, it so doesn't scan, but is no one else going to complain about the incorrect apostrophe in "W.M.D.'s"? more » BookishLookish: Neck of cowl Face of scowl Write your own novel But please, stop the grovel more » Kid Twist: When the Times goes belly-up, she can get a job writing those Poetry in Motion ad cards in the subway. more » Senor_Wences: Sometimes I forget to check the byline and accidentally begin reading one of her reviews. A couple of sentences in, I fly into a rage once I realize m... more » BeRightBack: I've always contended that her negative reviews would read better as battle raps. To wit: Jonathan Franzen's a dick, yo His idiot memoir is sick, yo ... more » Nice Beaver: Once upon a Friday dreary, while I commented, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of quite bland fame whore, While I nodded, nearly ... more » Aaron Altman: AK and NE? This rhyme pleases ME. more » dado: Her grumpy reviews are not fodder for boastMost of them read quite like dry whole wheat toastThat long for the savory tendrils of butterExcuse me whil... more » Smitros: Epic meh. more » smithhimself: Although Dear Mr. Trillin has found a new fan, Michiko should realize her verse does not scan. Her lines stagger forward, her meter has stumbled, A go... more » mathnet: Sheila, your rhythmic headline leaves me wanting more! dime, grime, lime, mime, prime, time more » it takes a lot to laugh: I love Michiko, I don't know where all the hate comes from. more » mathnet: Who, not whom. How off-pissing, Kakutani. more » katastic: W.M.D.'s that didn't exist led to a desert fiasco,While greed and a hurricane created domestic disasters. THAT IN NO WAY RHYMES.It would be an F-, but... more » -
#thetroublewithcritics
As Galleycat recently Times book meanie Michiko Kakutani has been in a cheery mood of late, overusing "stunning" and "dazzling" on two novels already this month! But other bad habits seem to die considerably harder. From the second sentence of her review of Don DeLillo's Falling Man:
His novels, from "Players" and "White Noise" through "Libra" and "Mao II" and the remarkable "Underworld," not only limned the surreal weirdness of the waning years of the 20th century, but somehow also managed to anticipate the shock and horror of 9/11 and its darkly unspooling aftermath.
Whether or not you agree with Dennis Loy Johnson's famous defense of Michiko's limning, by this point, would it kill her to toss us an "outlined" once in a while? A "sketched?" A "delineated"? We would totally settle for a "portrayed!" -
