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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

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🦋 The latest thing from Harvey Pekar

MacMillan has just published Harvey Pekar's history of the Beat generation. Illustrated by a number of different comix artists, and there are a few other authors besides Pekar as well. (Including Tuli Kupferberg!)

Gerald Nicosia's review in SFGate starts out a bit hostile about factual mistakes and about Pekar's insufficiently respectful treatment of Kerouac, but ends up quite taken with Pekar's portrayal of the lesser-known Beats and with the other contributors.

posted evening of Thursday, April second, 2009
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Interesting that Harvey has a new book. I liked the movie American Splendor so much that I'm interested in reading this.

posted evening of April 6th, 2009 by Barbara Soutar

It was a wonderful movie -- have you read the collections of American Splendor? Pekar is a really masterful story-teller -- I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with the Beats.

posted evening of April 6th, 2009 by Jeremy

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