Can you believe February is already over? It feels like only yesterday I was ringing in the new year with some bad singing and even worse dancing. The summer is over, March is upon us. This past week has been insanely busy, with live music protests, Wheeler Centre events, a music festival and associated sideshows, and, possibly my favourite, seeing the fabulous and funny film director John Waters deliver a monologue last night at Hamer Hall about all things filthy. He has a book due out later this year, Role Models, and excerpts are already available online. Waters spoke all too briefly about his extensive book collection – art books and film novelizations his specialty – and offered his sage and perennial advice:
If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em.
This week another of the Carson McCullers‘ set I’ve started collecting arrived from France, this week it was Clock Without Hands, which of course I reviewed a few weeks ago. As I mentioned, the covers are of a simple typographical design, with a large black and white photograph of McCullers on the back flap of the dust jacket. Along with the most recent Penguin Modern Classic editions of her works, these hardcovers are probably the most appealing I’ve seen, I’ll be sure to post more photos of them once the collection expands.
Book Loot, Carson McCullers, Clock Without Hands, February 2010, John Waters, Role Models
Love the Waters quote. Believe in the Waters quote.
Would like to read more by McCullers other than the one everyone else has read. Where do I start?
The Waters quote is so good, I just wish I had paid more attention to its sentiment in the past. Could have saved me a lot of trouble!
If you want something other than the usual McCullers recommendations (I imagine you’re thinking of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and the Ballad of the Sad Cafe?) I’d recommend Reflections in a Golden Eye, although a bit bizarre and confronting, it is quite a powerful novella; and I was also very impressed with Clock Without Hands, it is more overtly socially and politically inclined than her other novels.
Haha, love the Waters quote. That is one of the best dating advice.