by ragingtexan » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:59 pm
Just finished: Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem. She's a great essayist and I find myself liking her work more and more.
Current stuff:
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex, Drugs, And Rock N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. It's fantastic. I was reading John D. MacDonald's The Deep Blue Good-By, but the library copy's so damned old that pages are sloughing out and it looks like someone crapped on it. I've also got Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666 on deck, along with Marion Meade's biography of Dorothy Parker, called What Fresh Hell Is This?. Gotta catch up on stuff!
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day." - David Foster Wallace
"As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world." - Albert Camus, The Stranger