The average looker
on this site stays four minutes.
It’s like a porn site.
[Google Analytics data for readrogers.com, December 2008]

Based on this fact, here are some recent, readrogers-relevent news items, the jist of which are related via haiku. Arigatou!

Leave the word fuck in
Lady Chatterly’s Lover.
Where kids won’t see it.
[“To Read or Not To Read,” The National Endowment for the Arts, 2007]

Story equals dead.
Nerds greater than, equal to
M. Night Shyamalan.
[“Saving The Story,” The New York Times, November 18, 2008]

Publishing people
are getting fired. So who’s
publishing people?
[“Publishers Announce Staff Cuts,” The New York Times, December 4, 2008]

Book clubs aren’t just for
reading and discussing lit.
They read Dan Brown too.
[“Fought Over Any Good Books Lately?” The New York Times, December 7, 2008]

Too many writers
means buyer’s market on words.
Not speller’s market.
[“Bail Out the Writers!” The New York Times, December 14, 2008]