What do we have here?
« Calvinball | Main | The Right Attitude »
Look At This
26 Jan 2008 09:34 am
Comments (45)
Can't wait to get my copy. And remember, if you start a blog for the book do not allow comments, only publish fawning letters of approval and any reviewer to the right of Kos doesn't count.
I don't know if that cover is going to make it sell. You should add a Hitler mustache somewhere on it.
ZOMG!!!
Congrats. It looks very interesting.
Bush is a nationalist..
So according to the definition by the greatest thinker of the 21st Century you are accusing Bush of being a fascist?
How come you never asked your readership for help in the research? And how did you get this published without your mommy pulling strings for you in the industry?
Are you going to get nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, like Cheeto Bob Load Pants?
Book learnin'.
Congratulations, Matt. It looks terrific. You have some rather strange page-fellows on the BN site: Mark Steyn, Tom Friedman. I'm sure the latter will be pleased to know that he can receive some instruction in his assumed area of expertise in less than half a Friedman unit.
I hope the book does well.
Congratulations! I'm always willing to give you the twenty seconds or so it takes to read your one or two paragraphs here: I look forward to seeing how you hold up over a longer space. I hope you haven't, like, succumbed to the allure fo teh spell checker just to ploease some hack ih the publishing industry.
Well I'm not a design/marketing professional, but I'd have a few doubts about the cover, which seems too "busy" (Goldberg's book may be junk, but the cover design is really good).
I think that today's American "masses" mostly tend to be ignorant, lazy, and attention-deficient, and partly for this reason book sales are mostly based on cover design, catchy titles, or other silly things. Didn't Michael Kinsley do that famous note-inside-book experiment showing that even in DC almost no one actually *reads* any of the political books they buy?
I'll bet if your cover had you wearing a wig and a dress and the title was "Giuliani's FemiNazi America" you'd sell a lot more books. Nobody would actually read them though...
Bush is a nationalist? If you don't want to cut him any idealist slack he's just an oligarch-gangster. Nationalists care about their nation.
I have to second RKU's opinion: it is a rather busy cover.
Congratulations Matt. The overviews and table of contents are excellent. I will watch for it at Mininova.
I wonder how many people are going to buy Yglesias' book? Anyone want to guess?
Congratulations!
Congratulations! I didn't realize you were writing a book, either because I'm not paying attention or because you've been too dignified to flog it as the best contribution to political discourse in this century, as seems to be common practice elsewhere.
I thought Bush's head was stuck someplace else.
Re Korha's comment "I wonder how many people are going to buy Yglesias' book? Anyone want to guess?"
------------
Well, his blog readers will each buy a copy. All 20 of us.
It looks like shameless self-promotion to me. I guess you've been hanging out with Andrew a lot lately.
I say self-promote....its a great topic. Besides, why have a blog if you can't sell stuff on it? You need some of that Sullivan sense of self-importance. I also liked his book.
Congrats.
I'm not a fan of the "Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln" subtitle but it's cool you wrote a book. Author, author!
Uh, I don't know. Maybe a confessional piece about how Matthew Yglesias famously got Iraq completely wrong when it counted?
It's a beautiful baby.
So is there going to be a big book party in DC that all the unacknowledged(?) 'co-authors' otherwise known as MY.com commenters are invited to?
Congratulations, even though I disagree with you!
But who screwed up the 'skins? Congratulations, a book is a wonderful thing to produce. I hope you'll do a signing at Blue Hill Books this summer.
What a weird assortment of "Customers Also Bought":
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It - Mark Steyn
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future - Vali Nasr
From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter - Thomas L. Friedman
Even stranger at Amazon:
Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again by David Frum
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Gr... by Amity Shlaes
In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of P... by Theodore Dalrymple
Probably due to a low sample size?
I, too, look forward to the book. You might want to get the publisher to proofread their promotional copy before they send it out... this blurb is a syntactical mess.
Congrats! Always fun to come back to someone "If you think you are so smart and have such great ideas, you should write a book"
Actually, I have. Three in fact. Plus my national magazine and blog essays
I agree with Chris C, though. Whoever wrote that blurb ought to be hanging by thumbscrews.
I think it's an excellent cover -- light, magazine-y, engaging. Congrats.
congrats - looking forward to it (and the daily show/colbert interviews)
Female reviewers at the Washington Post, the NY Times and the New York Review of Books all say that it is a short book ...
And that it's policy discussions follow a consistent pattern: First, a strong thrust but then the argument collapses.
I see that Amazon.com invites me to "be the first to review this book"
Oh,my. Didn't American Airlines once invite Osama Bin Laden to join their frequent flyers club?
Congratulations on your contribution to the liberal fascism oeuvre.
Book tour?
Congrats, Matt. That's awesome.
Congrats, but I have to warn you-- after that craigslist post I almost didn't click. :D
Congratulations, it looks pretty good. I have to say that I am very impressed that this is, as far as i know, one of the first appearances Author Yglesias has made at the blog. Sully is always pitching his book. It drives me mad.
I'll read the shit out of that
Congratulations Matt. The overviews and table of contents are excellent. I will watch for it at Mininova.
LOL, well played Gary! It does make me wonder... since I'm lazy and prefer books on tape, I'm curious to see who does the narration for the audio version.
Too bad this guy recently died, he'd be be perfect. :o)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFi6fhcMnYQ
That cover sucks. If the book doesn't sell well, blame that.
So Matt: can we now disdain or dismiss your commentary on the grounds that you're just trying to sell your book??
Seriously, congratulations.
So Matt: can we now disdain or dismiss your commentary on the grounds that you're just trying to sell your book??
Seriously, congratulations.
You can see Matt wrote his own promo:
"Matthew Yglesias has risen to prominence as a political commentator by being the wisest and wittiest writer to articulate his anger over this ridiculous state of affairs. He's been profiled as an up-and-comer in both New York and GQ magazines, and the Wall Street Journal recently called him "a ringleader-of-sorts for the D.C. blogging community."
Yeah, I listen to the Wall Street Journal...
"With his famously sharp mind (and tongue)..."
Oh, please... I would be ashamed to write that about myself (even though it's true - about me.)
Basically I think the long title of the book makes the entire argument - and that argument is already obvious to anybody who cares - so who needs to read the book?
Comments closed February 09, 2008.
| 
Heads in the Sand
...that has never before been made with such care.
Seriously, congratulations on this publication. I hope it is well-received by the public and pundits. Now you can leave blogging and get a real job.
Posted by Moral Panicker | January 26, 2008 9:45 AM