Tuesday, January 29, 2002

oh, this cracked me up:
from the "Corrections" section of the New York Times today:
The Books of The Times review on Wednesday, about "Just Like Beauty" by Lisa Lerner, misstated the name of the protagonist at one point and of her friend at another. The protagonist is Edie, not Lisa; her friend is Lana, not Lara. The review summarized the plot incompletely; although Edie and Lana drive off into the sunset, they change their minds and return home.

The review also quoted erroneously from a definition of literature by the poet Marianne Moore, cited as a measure of Ms. Lerner's novel. Moore wrote of writers who create "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," not tigers.


is anyone paying attention??