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Conspiracy of the Trolls
April 9, 2007
Quoth Kuczynski:
With the publication of “A Model Summer,” Paulina Porizkova makes her own contribution to a literary sub-sub-genre, books by supermodels. Most of these get bad reviews, either because they’re truly awful, like Naomi Campbell’s “Swan,” which won Seventeen magazine’s Super-Cheesy Award, or — call me a conspiracy theorist — because jealous book critics aren’t tall and gorgeous, so they try to wield their puny amount of power to establish some sort of moral order.
She's so totally right. A cabal of book critics meets under the Manhattan bridge every Sunday at midnight to eat rotten goat meat and decide which pretty writers' new books they're going to hatchet job into remainders. I came across the greasy, zitty, Christmas-sweater-wearing lot of them last night while walking my dog. They were incensed at having been exposed. So I reminded them that Kuczynski might be attractive, but she's also no stranger to the knife. And, besides, nobody's buying her book, anyway.
That made them feel better.
Posted by Jonathan Segura on April 9, 2007 | Comments (1)
