It’s supposed to be really difficult to get a book published, right? So how to account for all the really dumb books out there? “What were they thinking? I’m not talking here about bad books. Though they exist, books that are just plain and irredeemably awful are too sad to waste time thinking about. No: the books I’m presently pondering aren’t necessarily bad – though some of them are – they’re just so… well… dumb and unplaceable, it’s difficult to imagine book store owners knowing what to do with them, let alone book buyers.”