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...page book - which landed Palin a reported $5 million advance - ahead of its release date; their assessments are decidedly mixed. Melanie Kirkpatrick, a former deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, says the book reveals "a prodigious worker capable of mastering complicated issues," while Michiko Kakutani, writing in the New York Times, sees "an eager player in the blame game, ungrateful to the McCain campaign." Two common observations: Palin reserves her most aggressive attacks for McCain's campaign staff, rather than President Obama and the Democrats. And the former Alaska governor offers few hints about her future...
...Michiko Kakutani, New York Times: "All in all Ms. Palin emerges from Going Rogue as an eager player in the blame game, ungrateful to the McCain campaign for putting her on the national stage. As for the McCain campaign, it often feels like a desperate and cynical operation, willing to make a risky Hail Mary pass to try to score a tactical win, instead of making a considered judgment as to who might be genuinely qualified to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office...
...hominum, it’s so black and white.” “The stupidest person in New York City is currently the lead reviewer of fiction for the New York Times,” he added, referring to controversial, Pulitzer-Prize winning reviewer Michiko Kakutani. Speaking to the success of “The Corrections”—a National Book Award winner that examines how children want to correct the mistakes of their parents’ lives, and how parents live vicariously through their children—Franzen identified two types of readers...
...reason you’ll be here at Harvard: your most recent book, "State of Denial." Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times seems to think that it contains a portrait of President Bush "that stands in stark contrast to the laudatory one [you] drew in ‘Bush at War’" in 2002. How has your tone regarding the president changed in your new book...
...with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani doling out on-the-spot critiques a la Simon Cowell. (Kakutani: "Roth, that was self-indulgent, semi-literate trash! No wonder you never got that trip to Sweden." Roth: [tries to look brave, then sobs uncontrollably onto David Foster Wallace's shoulder...