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A Year of Tuesdays
Ah, that wonderful, wonderful Onion!
New York Times Seeks Court Order To Remove Tuesdays With Morrie From Bestseller List
NEW YORK—The New York Times announced Monday that it will seek a court order to have Mitch Albom's book of discussions between himself and his dying mentor, Tuesdays With Morrie, forcibly removed from the paperback non-fiction bestseller list.
"We've tolerated the old dead guy's ramblings for the past 66 weeks," Times Sunday books-section editor Mel Constantine said. "But now it's simply gotta go. I want Morrie out of my list—permanently."
Should the order be successful, the book's slot on the list will be replaced by a line urging readers to donate to the Fresh Air Fund.
March 25, 2004 in Books | Permalink
Comments
How bizarre to replace, a bestseller that's well, a bestsellar; first the new statement about the revamping of the section and now this-poor Morrie. :)
Cole
Posted by: Cole at Mar 25, 2004 4:10:26 PM
Well, Morrie the person is dead and gone, and Morrie the book has made Mitch Albom a multimillionaire. Sympathy, of course, for the former, but none for the latter.
If Albom is the sort of non-fiction the Times wants to emphasize at the expense of good fiction, then heaven help us. I'll stick to indies like Ruminator Review instead.
Posted by: Pete at Mar 26, 2004 10:22:49 AM
