American Smoke

[rich]

i might have said this before but i think i like sinclair in small doses,
his essays in the LRB and the like. can honestly add have no idea what he's
on about half the time.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:43 PM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Went to the launch of this:
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/04/iain-sinclair-american-smoke-review
> this evening - sounds pretty marvellous.  As it says on the dust
> jacket:
>
> "his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the
> American Beats and their fellow travellers, echoes as always in the
> mythologies of London, through which so many of them also passed.
>
> In a book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, this is a
> delirious expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson,
> Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder and more, heated by
> obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false
> memories, broken reports and strange adventures"
>
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