Chase Pickering Pickering itibaren Shah Salempur, Bihar, الهند
Pulpy crap that lacks subtlety, but the underlying story is good if you can get past the self-conscious noir elements. An airplane read.
So W. Glasgow Philips published the book Tuscaloosa when he was 24, and it was quite well received. (I've read Tuscaloosa, and it's pretty good. Not astonishing, but good.) He then got a huge grant from Stanford to keep writing, and everyone was praising him all over the place and he had it made. Well, The Royal Nonesuch really is 200 pages or so of why he really, really didn't. It's kind of a sad memoir, one of the main undertones of which is that Philips never again achieved the level of success he'd had when Tuscaloosa first came out. He did do a lot of really cool stuff, though. He is friends with Trey Parker & Matt Stone (in fact his roommate for many years was the guy who played Choda Boy in Orgazmo, who remains convinced to this day that the entire project was conceived with the sole aim of getting him in front of a camera with a dick on his head), and really involved in underground film circles, even creating (with friends) anti-festivals called LapDance and Cannes You Dig It? He also started a corporate naming company, and was involved with a whole bunch of internet start-ups in the 90s that all... almost... were about to strike it big. Interspersed with all that is a rotating cast of quirky, tragic, fascinating characters that I really can't describe in sound bytes. So yes yes, I definitely enjoyed this book. It was kind of disappointing, though, and inconclusive, as a memoir I guess is likely to be. But a good book to read on a plane, and there are lots of images and scenes that will stay with me.