The Book Problem, revisited.
The Book Problem Were the problem book people like us, it would soon go away. It is not our weaknesses, or our sentimentality, or our nostalgia. It’s As If’ we’ve become obsolete and we haven’t. By ‘we,’ I mean We the People of the Book: Jews, Christians, Islamic people and a lot of people who […]
Journals: SF/Mpls/NY, 1972-1973. Pt. 1
Synopsis I started keeping journals in 1968 and, in 1971, I threw everything I’d written away. At 19 I wanted nothing more than to put it all behind me: my hometown, my family, but mostly me, the bad writer. My immersion in paperback literature was making a perfectionist out of me. There were 2 volumes […]
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