Complete Euro-bourgeois clown and stolid prosewriter...Gunter Grass. That he thinks it, somehow, hip to pimp his book this way proves it all.

'"In a 2003 interview with the German newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, Grass lectured that “the deep reason for the increasing terrorism” was “disappointment” born of poverty. Informed that the September 11 hijackers hailed from wealthy backgrounds, Grass refused to budge. “In any case,” he retorted, “war is the wrong reaction to terrorism.”'