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
Dad’s in a bad mood, Dad’s got the blues
It’s someone else’s mess that I didn’t choose
At least we’re winning on the Fox Evening News
Nobody loves me here
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
Richard Thompson makes extensive use of military slang in this new song about Baghdad. Go here for the full lyric of Dad’s Gonna Kill Me.
And you can listen to Thompson performing the song, legally, here.
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