What I've Finished Reading

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffery Wolff. Large and sympathetic but not too fulsome biography of a dismally prudish sybarite and one-man death cult who also managed to publish some important authors in the 1920s before shooting himself and a girlfriend in a hotel room. Nothing ( Read more... )

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My wrists are messed up for reasons 99% unrelated to this journal, so this will be a short Wednesday Reading Meme. Regular posting will probably resume next week.

What I've Finished Reading"Alcibiades I" and "The Symposium," two dialogues by Plato (translated into English), for the Alcibiades Book Club, which is not a ( Read more... )

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What I've Finished Reading

A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene. I don't know why I liked this little book so much when the other two Greenes left me cold. Maybe because the main character's sexual relationships are all in the past, so I can't hypocritically turn up my nose at his Human Weakness (TM). Maybe because he ( Read more... )