Friday - November 13, 2009

Literary Vices, with Rudolph Delson: Spiro Agnew, NSFW  @12:29 PM

Now that Sarah Palin's 'Going Rogue' is beginning to leak out onto the Internet in advance of next week's publication date, we are wrapping up our series analyzing the canon of vice presidential literature!

If you ever buy Spiro Agnew's novel The Canfield Decision, buy the mass-market paperback edition released by Berkley Medallion Books in March of 1977. For one thing, Berkley Medallion is the kind of publisher that inserts full-color cigarette advertisements between leaves of their books. For another thing, Berkley Medallion is the kind of publisher whose copyright pages include disclaimers such as: "Published by arrangement with Playboy Press." In other words, Berkley Medallion fiction is adult fiction. Accordingly, gentle readers, it is my duty-my gentle duty-to inform you that the following review of The Canfield Decision is Not Safe For Work. READ MORE 11