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Guilfoile: The Second Coming of John Madden?

As much as I enjoy the annual Tournament of Books at The Morning News, this year I'm enjoying even more the addition of Kevin Guilfoile's hilarious commentary from the peanut gallery. Here, for example, he takes judge Kate Schlegel to task for re-reading books, saying that such a deplorable practice is "killing the book publishing industry":

Rereading Midnight’s Children, for instance, is no different from breaking into Salman Rushdie’s luxurious Manhattan apartment and stealing a wheel of imported cheese.

He's already got us drooling over what he might have to say about the Round Two matchup between Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer, who are married to each other. ("Remember last year when everyone got their hair in knots because the finalists for the National Book Award all lived in New York? Just think how pissed America would have been if all five of them slept in the same bed?") Can't wait.

March 22, 2006 in Books | Permalink

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