Cyra McFadden

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I'm re-reading The Serial and it's just as terrific and funny as I remember it from 15 or so years ago. I understand it's out of print but they've got it for 1 cent on amazon which I think is probably a fine way to spend a cent.

Anyone able to recommend anything else of this ilk? Not necessarily the format (small soap-like episodes) but the subject matter.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Friday, 12 January 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

Which I should maybe add for those who haven't heard of it - is middle class 1970s California.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

I'm just going to bump this after 3 years because having just watched The Kids Are Alright this book popped back into my head.

So books concerning middle-class Californians (1970s if you have them) - anyone care to name a couple? Please?

― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

Jones, California's Over
Maupin, Tales of the City

― alimosina, Friday, 26 November 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Belated thanks to alimosina - just ordered Califonia's Over - looks v. interesting.

― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 07:48 (fourteen years ago)

books concerning middle-class Californians (1970s if you have them)

The two books by Jessica Anya Blau definitely fit here:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/B003A02Y6A.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061984027.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

though the second one is half 1970s, half now

― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Tuesday, 30 August 2011 23:48 (fourteen years ago)

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