* Canseco update

April 10, 2008

Okay, it’s been at least five minutes since we’ve heard anything about Jose Hemingway. For those of you who need a fix, here are a few crumbs:

  • The Week is an interesting publication, kind of like a condense Reader’s Digest offering snippets from other publications on the major events of the last seven days. As such, it has to be circumspect in what it chooses to include in its scant pages. This week, it takes up the Canseco kerfuffle with a synopsis of “what happened” and “what the commentators said” (from Newsday, Rotoworld.com, and The New York Times.
  • From the Santa Rosa (CA) Press Democrat, this review by Lowell Cohn who poses the question, “Who is a worse human being, the baseball player who uses performance-enhancing drugs or the baseball player who snitches on other ballplayers who use performance-enhancing drugs.”
  • From the University of Tulsa’s Collegian Online: “Most sequels fail to live up to their original and this futile attempt at literary greatness is no exception.” Out of the mouths of babes…
  • From the Scripps Howard News Service: Headline: “Canseco’s new book doesn’t pass smell test.”
  • From north of the border, Stephen brunt from the Toronto Globe and Mail writes that Canseco may be nuts, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
  • From Bleacherreport, another profile.
  • When Canseco visited Chicago on his book tour, the Sun-Times and the Tribune both took note. Jay Mariotti of the S-T wrote that despite what the mssage way, the author was a commanding presence, while the Trib‘s David Haugh is is almost complementary in his article, calling the book “sometimes edgy.” The same thing occurred when Canseco was in Boston, as The Globe covered his booksigning at a local Borders (this coverage by CBS includes video).

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