Has anybody had a crack at the Stephen Kotkin Stalin biographies yet?
They look to be on an epic Isaac Deutscher-on-Trotsky scale, but I just do not have the time.
I just saw Jenks! Top reader. Now one of four dissensus people to have visited me at work.
(Woebot. Padraig. Danny L.)
Jenks has read every novel ever written.
I enjoyed the Opium Eater book, some of it is very funny. Aren't there two versions? Different edits basically. He also wrote Suspiria which I must read.
Jenks has read every novel ever written.
I've been reading that Penman collection. Up to Sinatra essay. Slightly ambivalent about his style at times but also, often, deeply envious. I really liked the opening essay on Mod, and it's empty, archival recreations. And it's got me listening to James Brown and Charlie Parker and even the Kinks!
Jenks how does reading all those books at once work out?
I was trying that sort of approach earlier this year. Perhaps it's the healthiest or sanest way to do it in the Internet age, when our minds are attuned to switching attention anyway?