Will someone on my friends list PLEASE read Time's Arrow by Martin Amis so I have someone to talk about it with? If I had a nickel for every one of you people that I have recommended it to, why, I'd have a handful of nickels.

And don't get me started on Blood Meridian.

I've been thinking about the relation between art, the artist's personality and his or her audience lately. Here are the examples that have gotten me thinking ( Read more... )