TNY weekend reader: the good, the bad, and the inexperienced.
(image: carolita johnson)
Running behind because I went away for the weekend, but no doubt I’m not the only one behind in my reading.
Beware of “Good People,” they’re a mess. By David Foster Wallace.
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s personal history piece, “The Open World,” in the be-careful-what-you-wish-for department, is beautiful, and the translation sparkles.
Peter Schjeldahl’s “Different Strokes,” about Gayford’s new book about Paul Gauguin’s sojourn with Van Gogh in Arles (“The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles†(Little, Brown; $24.99) which is as exciting as any gossip you’ll read in The Post, but much more refined.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I skipped “The Open World” because of the subtitle, “A legendary travel writer’s . . . ” but when I went back to it, on the recommendation of the collective blogopinion, I found it very exciting and, like, the exact opposite of travel writing.
February 10th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I almost skipped it for the same reason! But it was well worth the read!