archives for Tuesday 21 November 2006

at home in the world

Tuesday 21 November 2006 | I like a cookie

Joyce Maynard’s autobiography may be the fucking saddest book I’ve ever read. It’s like Tolstoy, or Jean de Florette; it’s almost worse than Lear; the graphic tragedies just keep piling up, and the plummeting falls from acme never seem to end. It wasn’t bad enough that Jerry Salinger was a 53-year-old child-molesting wingnut who’s apparently [...]

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