JSF

** What does it tell us when a publication that's basically a collection of ads created for and by book industry people can get JSF to say freaky shit?

When I was a kid I was very precocious and very weird, I guess. I used to have all these outfits I insisted on wearing, like bow ties and glitter vests [ed.---WTF?!], and I would wear rings on all my fingers.

** Okay, so you know you want to know what Michiko Kakutani thinks of Saturday

Mr. McEwan has not only produced one of the most powerful pieces of post-9/11 fiction yet published, but also fulfilled that very primal mission of the novel: to show how we - a privileged few of us, anyway - live today

And yes, she uses the word limn.

Comments

[Kit Stolz]

Do you have a pet peeve about the word "limn?" I do as well. It's one of those words that's never ever used in conversation, and for that reason sounds pretentious in print, at least to me. But heck, if the NYTimes likes it...

[Scott]

Kakutani has a noted infatuation with the word. Others have been critical of her widespread use of limn for the exact reasons you mention.

No one knows why the NYTimes keeps letting it pass into print.