Blurbist of the Week: Michael Stipe

Blurbist of the Week: Michael Stipe

The R.E.M. lead singer writes of Greg Fiering’s Migraine Boy: ”…a raw nerve deadpan in a tranquilized flat world. Funnier than the Angriest Dog, funny like Andy Kaufman, he is the heavy lite champion of the damndest impulses.” Huh?

Coincidence of the Week: Where There’s Smoke

David Champion’s Nobody Roots for Goliath is a legal thriller about corruption in the tobacco industry that purports to be ”one of the summer’s hottest courtroom dramas.” John Grisham may have something to say about that.