Jean Genet - c or d? S&D?

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as a writer, I mean.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic - read it all! Not that there's much.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What I have read I enjoyed. I tried reading the Edmund White bio but got bogged down in some prison somewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a film. It was rude. I suppose he wrote it as well as directed it. It was about a gay sailor.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i quite liked "our lady of the flowers," and "a thief's journal" is sitting on my bookpile waiting.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

our lady of the flowers is classic. but I felt that was all i needed to read by him.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

classic tho you have to be (at least for me) in a certain mood to read him. beautiful, beautiful writing. alway challenging to me in that while i can identify with many things he says and writes I am always discomfited horrified by others. he makes me deeply uncomfortable while also seducing me.

Prisoner of Live - his book about the fedayeens is absolutely lyrical and is a beautiful coda to his work.

Ned, the edmund white bio is imo one of the best literary bios i've ever read, try it again.

PJ - the film yer talkin' about would be Querelle, directed by Fassbinder.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, the edmund white bio is imo one of the best literary bios i've ever read, try it again.

It wasn't bad, I just got bogged down a bit. Oddly enough, I hadn't actually READ anything by Genet yet when I read the bio.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, the US premiere of The Blacks starred, among others, Maya Angelou, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Louis Gossett Jr. and Cicely Tyson with Roxie Roker as an understudy which I think is pretty darn cool. Darth Vader and Helen Willis together!

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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