The gold standard of authenticity has mentioned Bookdwarf in an article about meta-criticism and reviews of book reviews (the dwarf has been doing a rundown of the Globe book reviews recently). The article seems to imply that this is getting a little bit too meta, but I think that if the book reviews have enough weight, they’re worthy of criticism. Besides, I haven’t got time to read them all– much less the books– so I can at least keep up by reading summaries of reviews of books I might want to argue about at cocktail parties.
On a vaguely related note, I heard a great bossa-nova version of Love will Tear us Apart last week, but now that I’ve looked up the review, and found that Pitchfork is ambivalent about it, I’m not so sure I should follow up. Still, bossa-nova Joy Division! This will go great with my collection of Blue Monday covers.
Secretly Ironic 