Authors.
So I think there's a trend going on. A few weeks back (the night that Clay Buccholz pitched his no-hitter), I was with tolchocky and Seth at The People's Republik in Cambridge. We were enjoying our respective drinks when I noticed a young woman reading Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. It was sort of inexplicable. Even I don't bring books to bars?
Then, Saturday before last, I was in South Boston for the Ollie Road Race 5-miler. After the race finished (I finished in 33:36, placing 62/167 among males 20-29), I saw a guy in his thirties reading the same book.
Finally, there was a retrospective/review of the Bloom book in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. So I really want to know what's going on here. The zeitgeist is apparently all about this book right now. Is this just a twentieth anniversary of publication thing? Is it something more sinister?
Also, Robert Jordan is dead. I guess we'll never find out if Rand al'Thor kills Voldemort or vice versa at Tarmon Gai'don. Bummer.
Then, Saturday before last, I was in South Boston for the Ollie Road Race 5-miler. After the race finished (I finished in 33:36, placing 62/167 among males 20-29), I saw a guy in his thirties reading the same book.
Finally, there was a retrospective/review of the Bloom book in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. So I really want to know what's going on here. The zeitgeist is apparently all about this book right now. Is this just a twentieth anniversary of publication thing? Is it something more sinister?
Also, Robert Jordan is dead. I guess we'll never find out if Rand al'Thor kills Voldemort or vice versa at Tarmon Gai'don. Bummer.