Art Garfunkel's Library

[David Morris]

1023 books divided by 40 years = 25.5 books per year or 2.25 books per month.

Not bad, really.

On Jan 23, 2008 5:06 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1023 seems like a short list since 1968 for a sporadically employed
> singer/actor  with a lot of time on his hands.
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> On Jan 22, 2008 4:06 PM, David Morris < fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Everyone's entitled to their opinions, especially in this era of
> > blogs.  So I won't succumb to the temptation to snark about HIS
> > relative talent in music, because it's irrelevant.  And if Joe-Schmoe
> > can have a blog abou literature, then I guess Art's entitled.
> >
> > But does he know what postmodern fiction is?  He includes Catch-22 on
> > his list.  That is at least a bit post-modern?   And what about
> > Portnoy's Complaint?
> >
> > His favorites list contains some fluff, but again, he's entitled.
> >
> > And what the hell does he mean when he calls GR "fraudulent."  I
> > suspect he just couldn't follow it, so he feels obliged to denigrate
> > it.
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> > David Morris
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> > On Jan 22, 2008 1:29 PM, Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling
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> > <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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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