59\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.90\u00a0 0mpn WSW dewpoint 44\u00a0 Beltane<\/p>\n
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A mediocre night\u00a0at sheepshead, but we had a lot of laughs anyhow.\u00a0 Bill Schmidt cleaned up the nickels tonight.<\/p>\n
While driving back and forth I finished I Am Charlotte Simons, <\/u>a 2004 Tom Wolfe novel.\u00a0 It’s reviews are all over the map and I can see why.\u00a0 On the one hand it is an arresting look at college life in the Ivy league.\u00a0 On the other hand the characters never reached very deep into my soul.\u00a0 It was long and brimming with detail, a novel of manners of a sort.\u00a0 I’m glad I “read” it. (Listened to it.)\u00a0 Don’t know if I would have finished it as a read.<\/p>\n
Another writer who has my complete attention right now is Richard Price, author of Clockers and Lush Life.\u00a0 I finished Clockers a few weeks ago and bought Lush Life last week.\u00a0 I’m part way into it.\u00a0 This guy writes dialogue with an ear like no body I’ve read before.\u00a0\u00a0 In Clockers he channels inner city drug dealers and homicide detectives with equal credulity.\u00a0 Lush Life continues this same kind of street savvy attention to speech and mores, this time on the Lower East Side in New York.\u00a0 Clockers was set in New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both of these guys, in different ways, reach into a segment of American life only a few of us witness.\u00a0 Of the two, Price’s work has the ring of authenticity while Wolfe’s is satirical and just a bit off key.\u00a0 Still, I enjoy both authors and am glad to have them on the scene.<\/p>\n
I returned, last night and today, to a novel I’ve fooled around with since 2001, Superior Wolf.\u00a0 It has possibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
59\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.90\u00a0 0mpn WSW dewpoint 44\u00a0 Beltane \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon A mediocre night\u00a0at sheepshead, but we had a lot of laughs anyhow.\u00a0 Bill Schmidt cleaned up the nickels tonight. While driving back and forth I finished I Am Charlotte Simons, a 2004 Tom Wolfe novel.\u00a0 It’s reviews are all over the … Continue reading Current Literature<\/span>