Paul Theroux's The Great Railway Bazaar was my first introduction to travel writing. His fiction is uneven, very uneven but his travel writing is hypnotic. I also have a fondness for Eric Newby - sometimes a bit wordy but toughing it out for his dry humor is worth the effort.
Right now, I am discovering his Small Place in Italy, a spot not much different that the one Under the Tuscan Sun. I like approaching travel with a sense of light-hearted adventure. Especially since something goofy or weird, always seems to happen to me, and so it seems with Newby.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Finished with muses for now.
What a bunch! Prose's selection - the various roles her lineup played is intriguing. At first I thought the idea of a muse is a bit contrived, but it makes a good premise. Several of her choices, particularly artists, were not necessarily first rate- it is hard to take the pre-Raphaelites very seriously, and Yoko and John? Well we are talking about the roles of muses in *various* lights. The book has sent me scurrying to investigate some of the more interesting women, Lee Miller and Lee Salome-Andreas.
Just finished a loan from Robert via Anissa- a cyperpunk fiction piece- Idoru. A pleasant surprise, really.
What a bunch! Prose's selection - the various roles her lineup played is intriguing. At first I thought the idea of a muse is a bit contrived, but it makes a good premise. Several of her choices, particularly artists, were not necessarily first rate- it is hard to take the pre-Raphaelites very seriously, and Yoko and John? Well we are talking about the roles of muses in *various* lights. The book has sent me scurrying to investigate some of the more interesting women, Lee Miller and Lee Salome-Andreas.
Just finished a loan from Robert via Anissa- a cyperpunk fiction piece- Idoru. A pleasant surprise, really.
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