well, I've been haunted in my sleep...

 

Thomas Wolfe, American novelist

        I got excited to learn that a movie was made from one of my favorite books:  Max Perkins:  Editor of Genius, by A. Scott Berg.  I read it the summer between freshman and sophomore year of college -- during lunch breaks at work, on the trolley and subway...Rolling Stones on the radio...I've been walking Central Park

Singin' after dark

People think I'm crazy...

Maxwell Perkins worked for Scribner's publishing company in New York City, beginning in 1910.  In the 1920s and '30s, he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, among others.

        Thomas Wolfe was a Southern novelist (not to be confused with Tom Wolfe, another Southern writer).

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Thomas Wolfe

born in Asheville, North Carolina

October 3, 1900 - September 15, 1938

    Look Homeward, Angel

     You Can't Go Home Again

    The Web and the Rock

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Tom Wolfe

born in Richmond, Virginia

March 2, 1930 - May 14, 2018

    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    The Right Stuff

    Radical Chic

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The one who is part of Max Perkins' story is Thomas Wolfe, the North Carolina one.

        Anyway, they made a movie based on biography of a book editor -- it came out in 2016 -- I know how I missed it, my attention was all pulled into the election stuff....

The Guardian ran two reviews of the film, which is titled Genius.  Both reviews were unfavorable.  (How many times would I like to remind these people:  complaining about the movie is not the same as reviewing it...?  When the reviewer just starts saying, this happened, then that happened, and then they said this...and there is a derisive sneer behind each phrase and sentence and topic--I start to think, Why are they even writing this?

        Answer:  because it's their job....)

Maybe they are right, I thought, then I went on Amazon to the DVD of the movie and started reading customer ratings -- most of them love it!  Ironic, because sometimes customer reviews on Amazon can be a whole-nother level of dumpster-fire....

        (The more information we get, the less understanding we have.)

I desperately want to get the DVD and watch it, but first I have to become desperate enough to find a DVD-player to buy that isn't a piece of crap.  They make those things all over the world, and they don't think we necessarily need them to work....

(21st-century problems, I guess...)

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