…the Time Inc. Reading Program issued a reprint of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, complete with an introduction from the editors of Time. Here ’tis. Apparently, Greene was also well acquainted with suicide. Anyway, it’s all pretty remarkable.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Conflicted in early life between his desire to be a weatherman for local community access cable stations and a man who wears pants in July, JOB took the middle road and now writes poems between every waking moment. [Read More …]
All you need to know is that I'm a lady, understand?
Behave yourselves accordingly. [Read More …]
What a downer. I recommend “Full Black” by Brad Thorne instead.
There’s also one about Leonardo DaVinci that’s supposed to be good. It might be by Brad Thorne. Amy Welborn wrote a lot about it when it was first published.
At 17 he tried suicide six more times by playing Russian roulette.
Presumably his revolver had at least seven chambers….