Anyway, Rick McGinnis doesn’t quite say that here — but, then again, he doesn’t have to:
It’s tempting to make fun of Martel’s epistolary project, which came closest to self-parody early last year, in a breathless paragraph describing a letter the author received from U.S. president Barack Obama. (“The President of the United States wrote to me – to me! For sure I’m going to have the note framed. If there was a way of tattooing it on my back, I would.”)
