Better Than Friday - 290 (Patreon)

Good evening everyone, hope you’re all reading something excellent. Heatin’ up down here.

I’m finishing up Emmalea Russo’s “Vivienne”, and enjoying it very much.

Thanks very much to you all for helping me get the word about great books out there.

Wishing you a relaxing weekend.

1. Book to read: Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier (Paid Link)

Paglia discusses this one in Chapter 16 of Sexual Personae.

The story of a man and woman who both fall in love with someone who is not what they seem.

I've not yet read Gautier, but this sounds great.

2. Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground

Listened to this the other day and was shot back in time hard.

One of the best.

3. Gabrille Wittkop Interview

The auto-translate English subs are a bit disordered, but I found her thoughts about the Tiger and Sade compelling.

4. A conversation between Jim Jarmusch and David Cronenberg in Interview Magazine

An interesting, though slightly dispiriting, conversation between two great filmmakers, minutes after the news came out that David Lynch had passed away.

5. Faulkner's 1 paragraph review of Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'

Well put, no?

Today, on my short video review of 'Leaving Las Vegas' by John O'Brien, I received a nice comment from Erin O'Brien, John's sister. Made my day.