Currently Reading: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

This is my first Richard Yates book. And so far so good. There are some brilliant lines in this bad boy. The kind of prose that will make you reread entire pages, to fully savour the poetry. Tao Lin and Noah Cicero are big Richard Yates fans. And Tao Lin is gonna be releasing his novel, "Richard Yates" this year I believe which I can't wait to read. So I decided to stop dragging my feet and finally read him. After Revolutionary Road, I plan reading The Easter Parade and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness.

I will let you know how it went.

Cheers!

FYI...2666 by Roberto Bolano gets an A- from me. I really think it's that good. I will write more about it later.

Currently Reading: 2666 by Roberto Bolano

I've read all of Bolano's books except the new ones that are about to come out. 2666 is very good, and the whole time you're reading it, you have no idea where he is taking you. So it's pretty exciting. I'm taking my time reading it, because like a good wine, you got to savour it.

John Cheever Quote

"A page of good prose remains invincible."

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Tupac Shakur

I hit the studio and drop a jewel, hopin it pay.

Tupac
"To live and die in LA"

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Charles Willeford's Copy of My Friend Henry Miller by Alfred Perles

I was looking through my old books the other day, and I seemed to have discovered a book that once belonged to Charles Willeford, the author of Miami Blues. Charles Willeford was a Florida writer that was well known for his highly literary pulp novels. He made it really big in the 80's with Miami Blues which became a series about the detective Hokey Mosley. They even made a movie starring a much slimmer Alec Baldwin. The book that I believe belonged to Willeford is Alfred Perles' My Friend Henry Miller. It's a Henry Miller biography by someone that was there in Paris during the writing of Tropic of Cancer. What leads me to believe that the book belonged to Charles Willeford is that there is a stamp in the book with his name and address. As you can see in the photo. And since Charles Willeford taught at UM and Miami-Dade College where I bought the book during a library fire sale, I can safely say that I have a book that belonged to one of the greatest pulp writers of all time. :)

Ebay here I come!

Just Kidding.