“In literature, authors opinions count for more than critics’ opinions, whereas in art it’s the other way around. I mean, people are going to trust a John Updike blurb on that back of your book way more than the opinion of some guy at Kirkus Review. Another factor might be that it takes a long time to read a book—it’s hard to tell yourself you liked Ulysses if you put in something like twenty hours of sitting quietly and reading and weren’t actually having fun—so if you say to yourself you like it, it means you probably actually did like it.”

From an interview with Zak Smith over at Tinhouse. I will take this moment to say that We Did Porn is probably my favorite book of the year, though I liked the hell out of Zeitoun. The two books couldn’t be more different. Zeitoun is perfect, straight-forward socially conscious journalism that is probably the text on Katrina, while We Did Porn is unlike any book I’ve ever read before.

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