Alexis the Intern, My New Fave Review Reviewer

I've become a big fan of Gawker's snarky Monday morning roundup of the NYTBR, and this week's entry offers a perfect example of why:

We almost peed in our pants when we saw Jonathan Bush’s letter to the editor, expressing how he and members of his family were "incredulous" to see the NYT's two- page review of Kitty Kelley’s Bush family tell all. "I read the New York Times regularly; thus I was truly surprised and offended to see your review, which treats this rotten book seriously.” Honey, the NYTeditors... recently devoted a page of the Review to the joys of butt sex. You think they’re somehow "above" reviewing the Kitty Kelley book?

I don't entirely agree with her about the footnotes in David Foster Wallace's look at the Borges bio, some of which I rather enjoyed, though I think one went on three words too long.* Wallace's criticisms of the psychological emphasis in Borges: A Life seemed rather apt, though I'll have to read the book to be sure; it's certainly a much different impression of the biography than the one I got from Christopher Hitchens.

* To wit: "Think about it--the personal lives of most people who spend 14 hours a day sitting there alone, reading and writing, are not going to be thrill rides to hear about." See? Three words too long. (And fourteen should be spelled out, but that's the copyeditor in me squawking...)