I finally finished the audiobook of William Gaddis’ J R and thoroughly enjoyed it. I recommend it, especially for anyone that has wanted or tried to read it and felt overwhelmed at keeping so many unattributed conversations straight. Narrator Nick Sullivan provides distinctive voices for each character. Think of it as the color-coding Faulkner wanted […]
Month: 13 years ago
Posted for no other reason than I watched “Seven Chances” with the family last night and the boys wanted me to replay this scene (when they could speak between laughs, that is). TCM had Buster Keaton as their feature star a couple of months ago and the boys became huge fans. As zrsio, the uploader […]
In his own words: The Paris Review interview with Terry Southern in 1958. INTERVIEWER: I’d like to ask you some questions now about the work itself. You’ve described your novels as “nonrepresentational.” I wonder if you’d mind defining that term? GREEN: “Nonrepresentational” was meant to represent a picture which was not a photograph, nor a […]
The Physics of NASCAR: How to Make Steel + Gas + Rubber = Speed by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky Foreword by Ray EvernhamA few Saturdays ago I was sitting in the library while my boys were deciding on which books to check out when I saw this book in a science display. After leafing through a few […]