The New York Times article on the Paul Maliszewski/Michael Chabon scuffle says that Maliszewski was fired from McSweeney's after sending "an anonymous e-mail newsletter full of invented gossip about other writers. 'Hundreds of people around New York were getting some incredibly blasphemous e-mail full of incredible fabrications,' said Dave Eggers, McSweeney's editor."
Um, OK, I'm sure Jonathan Lethem is very special to you, but blasphemy? You do know that word is more or less reserved for God, right?
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Without having heard Chabon's lecture or read Maliszewski's article, I'm taking Chabon's side. That said, here's a very legit criticism of the Times story. And here's the cruelest thing you can say to a McSweeney's guy: "On second though, I won't fuck you."
