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Saturday
March 21, 2026
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| it started with an email from LOA. i thought i'd read jim thompson but i must've been mistaken because i'm sure i would have remembered. 3 of the 5 novels in the book on top took my head off. i burned through them at the rate of one a day, then the library came thru with another five + the overstuffed biography on the bottom. the only real dud was the rip-off, a cash grab of draft manuscript published after his too early death. it's fitting to binge his work bc that's how he wrote. and drank. |
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what's shocking is not the depravity of his characters (they're almost quaint by today's standards), but the sudden turns to formal experiment or an indignant hard left political tangent in the midst of a pulp fiction potboiler. well, that's a Wobbly for you. (the drawing on the wall could be at home on the cover of a paper- back noir, but it came with the apartment and we just painted around it, like a crime scene outline immortalized as art. her name was stella and last we heard she was trying to make it as a fashion designer in new york.) |