...in what used to be Boston's Combat Zone: "It's much sadder to be a surfer than to be a porn star."
Diane Wood Middlebrook: Anne Sexton: A Biography
What would you trade to be successful?
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Noir with computers
Joseph Edgar Chamberlin: The Boston Transcript; A History of Its First Hundred Years
Vanity journalism, easy reading.
Neal Karlen: The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
I'd be interested in a slightly more rigorous history.
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Classics)
Fascinating mixture of contempt and sympathy for a silly woman who thinks life should be like a novel.
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