The news stand in November 1955. Concerns over seemliness. How to get to Mexico, and how to party when you get there. Women with knives. The Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday coupe. New stars, new clothes, new parties, new places. What’s the deal with leaves? The mystery of “food drivers.” Geese. The headquarters for all the police. The dangers of false values of love.
It was a situation that would be perfectly fine and manageable if everyone showed a little patience and understanding. This is too much to ask of some, apparently.
I was in the middle of reading Dinty W. Moore’s new book “To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-inducing Inferno” from… Read more »
Some of the books I read in 2019 – regardless when they were first published! – that I would recommend. From crime fiction and cerebral sci-fi to design to marketing.