Helping Joe Queenan: Know Your Pecks
Dale Peck carries an ax... M. Scott Peck wears glasses.
The New York Observer looks at the Joe Queenan/A.J. Jacobs New York Times Book Review contretemps today, pulling the Band Aid off the raw, bookish affair. But it seems, based on the following quotes, that Queenan is still confused and overwhelmed by the whole thing:
"When you get a review as bad as the one I gave him, normally people have the presence of mind to just let it go away," said Mr. Queenan. He added that his own book had been "slammed" in The Times by Molly Ivins, and in turn that he d trashed books by Stephen King and Pat Robertson in The Times and The Wall Street Journal, respectively.
"Jacobs seems to have the idea that nobody s ever written a nasty review before," said Mr. Queenan. "He should take a look at Scott Peck s reviews . Have you read Scott Peck?"
Did Mr. Queenan mean Dale Peck?
"Dale Peck! His review of Rick Moody? I mean, it s like having your book reviewed by Ghengis Khan."
