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Title: Amazingly cynical
Review: Here's a wrtier. She's been to the Iowa Writers Workshop. She's married to the deputy editor of Harper's, the last bastion of upper west side smarmy NIMBY liberalism in the U.S. She's written some critically acclaimed novels, but sales are not as they should be (or her or publisher or hubby would like). What to do? Well, I would recycle the plot of my FIRST novel, style it as a confession a la Oprah and -- well, as one reviewer said, ka-ching! Brilliant, but nauseatingly cynical. Her New Yorker writer style, with its charming little images and two-bit solipism, might appeal to teens who like Nine Inch Nails, but this is not linerature for adults. It's a swinish attempt to cash in on the faux-confessional trend that dominated American letters in the late 90s, and succeeded magnificently. Colin and Kathryn Harrison are the Borgias of American fiction. As Lee said of Pope, "[They] should be suppressed."
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