Art Garfunkel's Library

[Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling]

>From the New Yorker,
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/01/28/080128ta_talk_paumgarten
"I avoid fluff," Garfunkel explained last week, on the phone from a
Marriott in Florida. "The stuff that men are always reading on planes:
I don't read that." He also doesn't read postmodern fiction—the
Garfunkel Library contains no Pynchon or Barthelme. "I tried
'Gravity's Rainbow,' and I thought it was fraudulent," he said.

"I read for the reading pleasure, not for the gold star," he went on.
"Reading is a way to take downtime and make it stimulating. If you're
in the waiting room of a dentist's office and don't want to twiddle
your thumbs, you turn to Tolstoy." ("Tolstoy is the king of writing,"
he said.)

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AsB4,

Henry