I was gobsmacked when I first heard that Oprah had actually chosen Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”:http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0307387895/ for her book club. My initial reaction was more a product of my assumption about the demographic of her readership than anything else, although I do remember mumbling to myself _Did she actually read the damn thing_?
I consider [...]
The Road Less Traveled
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
50 years of Ashberry
Thursday, May 4th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
The one poet since my college days that has constantly challenged me every time I read his work.
Vollman’s World, Violent Time, Excellent
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
!http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/vollman_william.jpg(Willam T. Vollman)!
“Vollman’s Violent World”:www.nybooks.com/articles/18560 There is a strange disconnect when you read Vollman’s books and see pictures of the man. I imagine him as a skinny version of the main character in ??A Confederacy of Dunces?? with an AK-47.
