Sari Gordon

I’m sure you’ve seen this in your in-box (no, not that in-box), but I was astonished. Maybe I should start paying attention to the kooks who say the world is about to end.

Oh, wait.

Do you know that ‘bird flu’ was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago?

Do you know that barely 100 people have died in [...]

What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? – New York Times:

THE WINNER:
Beloved
Toni Morrison (1987)

THE RUNNERS-UP:

Underworld
Don DeLillo (1997)

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels John Updike
‘Rabbit at Rest’ (1990)
‘Rabbit Is Rich’ (1981)
‘Rabbit Redux’ (1971)
‘Rabbit, Run’ (1960)

American Pastoral
Philip Roth (1997)

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ALSO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES:

A Confederacy of [...]

Pepi Longsocks was sad because his schoolmates excluded him from the game “Jump The Weed!”

‘You are very unusual! Ha ha ha!’

Those filthy Swedes, they got me again.

Obviously the gateway to Swedish evil is Ikea. I like the prices. I like the cleanliness. The meatballs are good. I don’t even mind that every purchase contains the random [...]