Reflections of a working writer and reader
I rarely read the whole of a book, especially a book that really interests me stylistically. . . sometimes I might go back and finish it, and sometimes I read it all the way through, but it's somehow enough to read the first ten or twenty pages and be amazed at what's going on. But I think in those cases I'm reading it for my own craft, I'm really a lot less interested in what happens in that kind of book and how it ends, even though I know that's a whole other part of it. I'm just interested in how the writer is approaching the material and what he or she is doing with it. Lydia Davis
December 1957:
Billie Holiday – Fine And Mellow
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Lady Day with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge.
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Thanks, John! Lovely!
jb says: Yeah; it set me up and carried me through the week.
Cool! The music is solemn and nice to hear. I like it.