Astrid Lorange on Gertrude Stein and “the poetics of spanking.”
Luc Sante waxes nostalgic over life in New York in the Seventies: “New York City was the only imaginable home, the only place that posted no outer limit on appearance or behavior.”
Posts Tagged ‘John Steinbeck’
Of Interest: Poetics of Spanking, New York Squalor, Steinbeck on Fiction
Posted: Sunday, December 19, 2010 in Community, Fiction, On Writing, PoeticsTags: Art of Fiction, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Luc Sante, New York City
Literature and Layoffs: What to Read When You’re Downsized
Posted: Thursday, November 4, 2010 in Fiction, Writers and MoneyTags: class struggle, Das Kapital, Donald Westlake, downsizing, Employment, Grapes of Wrath, Iain levinson, John Steinbeck, Karl Marx, Lars Eigner, Layoff, Since the Layoffs, The Ax, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels with Lisbeth, unemployment
What to do once you’re laid off… Hmm… Maybe explore a new career as a hit man? Here’s a link to the very best corporate-castoff-killer book: Donald Westlake‘s bitterly hilarious thriller, The Ax. And since you now have plenty of time to read, you can also check out Iain Levinson’s Since the Layoffs.
Think that out-and-out vagrancy is where we’re headed? Then revisit Steinbeck‘s The Grapes of Wrath, or maybe pick up dumpster-diving tips from Lars Eigner’s classic memoir, Travels with Lisbeth.
Done with fiction? Settling in for the long decline? Here’s the book for you: Capital.
