What book are you reading right now?
Posted by: Chillkram on 23 May 2010
I am currently reading Suetonius, 'The Twelve Caesars'.
How about you?
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
I agree, some of my most lucid and talented moments were after a 10 pint session and a kebab.
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
I agree, some of my most lucid and talented moments were after a 10 pint session and a kebab.
You should behave more responsibly, kebabs are bad for you! You'll never right a classic on those things
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
I agree, some of my most lucid and talented moments were after a 10 pint session and a kebab.
May I humbly enquire if these moments seemed as lucid and talented when reconsidered the next morning? 
Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever and Raymond Carver.
Beautiful, captivating and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.
I agree, some of my most lucid and talented moments were after a 10 pint session and a kebab.
May I humbly enquire if these moments seemed as lucid and talented when reconsidered the next morning?
Not judging by where I woke up :-)
Very enjoyable read, and his talents went "undiscovered" until late in his life when he became a folk music movement icon; a true giant of fingerstyle guitar.
Interesting book. The Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft complex taken to its dystopian conclusion.
Haven't read this in 30-odd years. Time for a re-read...
If you liked Joan Didion's A Year of Magical Thinking (which I did)...
'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
An Xmas pressie. One of the 20th century's most complex and alluring women, as photographed by some of the 20th century's greatest photographers:
Accompanied a superb exhibition at the British Museum a couple of years back:
Am looking for new ways to present complex info in a simple way and this is a fabulous book and a great source of information:
Had this laying around so I thought I'd dive in...
LoL
Wonder how different will it turn out to be in comparison to Barbara W. Tuchman's book "The Guns of August" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962.
Donald Fagan ,Eminent Hipsters.
's alright
Superbly-writen inside account of the 1990 World Cup in Italy:
Had this laying around so I thought I'd dive in...
Wow, I think I read this 25 years ago. Possibly under a different subtitle.
