Saved by Stephen Black
‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, by the late rock critic Lester Bangs,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
When the event began, Chabon was first at the mic, and King and I watched from the wings. As Chabon read his short story, the master of horror bopped his head and rocked in his chair, going “Yeah, man, yeah. Yeah, man, yeah, yeah. Ooooo …” like he was a hepcat listening to Coltrane.
Patrick Bringley • All the Beauty in the World
Anthony Bourdain, like Fran Liebowitz, has become an untouchable. That said, how can you not love a man who said, "Is there any place left in New York where an old guy can have a drink in the afternoon and, you know, be a little depressed?"
Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we’re puking in the gutter.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
At age fifty he viewed himself, after publication of two books of nonfiction, one on the war, the other a personal account of the Irish troubles, plus the short story collection and innumerable articles for national magazines, as a conundrum, a man unable to define his commitment or understand the secret of his own navel, a literary gnome. He serio
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