I want to return to Into The Wild to discuss the author himself. Jon Krakauer waits until the third act of the nonfiction book to discuss his own life, but doing so adds a lot of depth and context to the story of Chris McCandless. Krakauer is a climber and avid outdoorsman, and he has [...]
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The Cunning of Desire
Aside from The Outsider and Tropic of Cancer, the other life-changing book I read this year (yes, it’s been a big year of reading discoveries) was Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown. I actually heard about it last fall, when I bought a large book on Stanley Kubrick as a Christmas present for my [...]
The Ability to Create
Sorry to inundate you with facts about and quotes from Hunter S. Thompson. It’s only natural, since he’s one of my main literary inspirations. It just so happens that The Proud Highway, his first volume of collected correspondence, is “chock full” (as he would say) of useful advice. Before he reached the irreversible state of [...]
