Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Our Favorite Book Title, Part 13

This month, the honor goes to Kafka Come to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender's Inside Account. If there are still any doubters about how Kafkaesque things have gotten in this country, they've only to thumb through any halfway decent newspaper (alas, a list that's fast dwindling). Honorable mention goes to Barbara Ehrenreich's latest, This Land is Their Land: Notes from a Divided Nation (the jacket cover has the word "our" crossed out and written over with the word "their"). You can review earlier favorite book titles here.

2 Comments:

At 8:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kafkaesque? Who would used such a word in a lede?

 
At 9:44 AM, Blogger John Ettorre said...

Dave! What a pleasant surprise to see your name here. Okay, you got me on Kafkaesque. I probably wouldn't use it either. That's why you're a teacher/writer: you've got both bases covered. Thanks for giving me a little charge today.

 

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