Blog slap
: Also in Leon Wieseltier’s review of Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint (see above) is this uppercut to bloggers’ egos. Referring to the book’s would-be presidential assassin, he writes:
We infer from what is said that Jay is a deeply unhappy man. His wife has left him, his girlfriend has left him, he has lost his job as a high-school teacher, he works as a day laborer and has declared personal bankruptcy, he spends his days reading blogs. (About the deranging influence of blogs Baker makes a sterling point.)
