Comments on: I’m feel so seriously about it, I’m reduced to “I”

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:43:58 +0000

Post it herein!!!!

By: Events In Motion

Events In Motion — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:41:15 +0000

Just picked up a 1950s Bantam .50 cent version of “Point Of New Return” and…
I can’t put it down. I find myself comparing it to “The Corrections”, which I just finished and liked, and I find Franzen wanting.

PS – the promotional copy describing “PONR” on the back of my version is amazing.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:54:09 +0000

yes, Revolutionary Road gave me a bad Saturday, actually. I had to read some Eugenides to perk up.

By: maccers

maccers — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:39:24 +0000

Yates rocks but do not read if you are feeling remotely mopey.

Just saying.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:31:01 +0000

What’s racist about a dependable rickshaw boy? In Baltimore cabs are expensive, and they are ROYALTY.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:07:25 +0000

Lizzie: The Mr. Moto books are strangely ancient, written in a rush and filled with racist references to “my dependable rickshaw boy” and the like. And yet I read them all. Probably because they were so demented.

By: Dan Wickett

Dan Wickett — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:21:35 +0000

Did you pick up a copy of Blake Bailey’s Yates biography yet? Very good stuff.

Enjoy,

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:54:01 +0000

I like George Apley, but I liked “So Little Time” better; more heart, somehow. I haven’t gotten to Wickford Point yet; I’m about to see if the Mr. Moto novels are demented. I have an omnibus edition, I think from BOMC circa 1940 or something.

By: bookdwarf

bookdwarf — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:44:49 +0000

I’m a big fan of ‘The Late George Appley’. It’s the only Marquand I’ve read so far, but ‘Wickford Point’ is also on my shelf. Anyone read that one?

By: TEV

TEV — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:39:15 +0000

Just picked up the Yates collection remaindered. Will probably take it for the long flight to NYC next week …

By: Jimmy Beck

Jimmy Beck — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:02:17 +0000

Richard Ford hearts Yates, too. From the 12/12 Telegraph (via Bookslut):

“The lecture circuit in America is plainly more lucrative than it is here: Ford admits he can earn “$10,000 a pop” for it. He’s also been editing a follow-up volume to his Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992), for which I owe him a particular debt of gratitude: it was the book that first alerted me to the work of another Richard, Yates. (Ford also wrote a heartfelt introduction to the reissue of Yates’s incomparable novel, Revolutionary Road.)”

$10,000??? Fuck me with Binky Urban’s fountain pen…

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:39:55 +0000

Add “Sincerely, Willis Wayde” and if you want the ultimate Marquand war novel, check out “So Little Time.” Marquand’s the shit, yo.

By: Old Hag

Old Hag — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:26:02 +0000

Don’t miss BF’s Daughter and Revolutionary Road either!!!!

By: bluepoppy

bluepoppy — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:47:30 +0000

Mercy buckets. I needed a good read for the holiday and NOTHING was calling out to me until I read your review on the left– just ordered Point of No Return . . thanks.