The zigzagging between literature, religion, fantasy, the mock-academic and the bawdily demotic will be familiar to any reader, or failed reader, of Midnight's Children.
And I'm okay with that, too, because if I write for trends and not what I'm passionate about, it'll show in my writing and I'll definitely fail my readers, and failing my readers is not in my bailiwick.
But in the newspaper's article, Craig Moon, the newspaper's publisher, was quoted as saying: "As an institution, we failed our readers by not recognizing Jack Kelley's problems.
That, in turn, generated a strongly worded round-robin open letter from the editors and reporters, most of whom argued that the newspaper, which is owned by Knight Ridder, failed its readers.
I failed my readers in that regard.
Either way, the editors failed their readers.
Recently, the New Yorker's editors failed their readers by publishing Jonathan Franzen's birds-and-climate-change piece apparently without giving a serious look at assertions and basic failures.
If Wang and co-authors were aware of the fact that murine Wdnm1-like gene was most likely protein-encoding, and whether this was the case or not is unknown at this juncture, they have indeed failed the readers of Science in this regard.
But if Borders does fail, many readers like me will have no one to blame but ourselves.
If it fails Ebook readers can go straight to the deadpool.
