Better Than Friday - 134 (Patreon)

Happy Friday everyone, hope you're all well and have a great weekend. 

1. This looks intense - Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby 

Brought to my attention by a fan the other day. 

--------------------------------------------------------Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.

-Amazon

2. If you haven't already heard... 

Cormac McCarthy's got some new stuff coming out for the first time in like 16 years. 

I've messaged Knopf, trying to get some promotion copies to review by publishing date - Wish me luck!

3. Ukrainians are using books (literally) to protect themselves from shelling 

That's dark as hell, but wow. 

4. Nick Drake - Fruit Tree 

Some great stuff, taken from Lanegan's biography.  

5. Earth 

Glacial, Southern gothic drone metal. With a banjo. 

Again, the Lanegan connection, as guitarist Dylan Carlson from Earth was his roommate in the early grunge days of Seattle. Also, see #4 in Better Than Friday #102 

Winter's burning off. Some nice sun lately.