This morning I finished Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, which holds up as a snapshot of the decadent Eighties. I’ve since made it thirty pages into Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, a stunningly well-written remembrance of a childhood friendship. Next on the list is Joseph McBride’s book-length interview with Howard Hawks, titled (logically enough) Hawks on Hawks, loaned to me by a friend.
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