More to read

Based on a digressive search, here is my reading wishlist (currently scribbled on the back of an unused wedding invite):

Jonathan Lethem-the book about the girl in a band that works on a phoneline; Motherless Brooklyn & Fortress of Solitude (this should satisfy my desire to read a genre swapping writer, like Michael Chabon; my desire to read New York/Brooklyn fiction and my budding interest in crime fiction; as well as interest in fiction satirising the rock/grunge era like my next choice...

Gary Benchley Rock Star! by Paul Ford. I think I wrote a blog entry about this but didn't tag it; anyway my favourite line in it was when a older female character dating the young college graduate and budding musician said she wanted to go home so she could write her blog... and in a way, I notice how being a "rock musician" seems to be a desirable pastime for men who like reading and leisure time and performance and maybe a drug habit...

Susanna Clarke-recommended as a genre bender

Betsy Israel-Bachelor Girl-a social history of single women in New York. She's written some other books which sound interesting too and her history sounds great. She was born in 1959 and grew up in NYC, her father was an artist, her mother a bohemian dancer who'd been with the school of performing arts and was half cuban, her dad's orthodox jewish family didn't recognise the marriage, she grew up attending city schools, has taught writing at new york universities etc. So that covers 70s New York (another favourite, I used to love the Judy Blume books and books by Norma Klein and Maybe Next Year by Amy Hest).

The McSweeneys books

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