Archive for August, 2006

Ron McLarty: The Memory of Running

Monday, August 7th, 2006

It’s one way to find oneself; go cycling from New Hampshire to Los Angeles, and go through one’s life. Well, losing weight the same time seems a bit irrelevant compared to what Smithson Ide, the main character goes through. He’s a living breathing person, good company to a reader, and his family comes across as […]

Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude

Monday, August 7th, 2006

A look into two very unfamiliar territories for me; Brooklyn, NY from the 1970ies to the present day, and the music in it, mostly of the kind I haven’t mush listened. The two boys, Dylan and Mingus, are alive enough, and their growing up well depicted. Also their different families, somehow I didn’t miss the […]