re: #303 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.

I remember starting “Lonesome Dove” when it first came out and not being interested in it at all. Then I revisited it, over 25 years later, and was totally enthralled by the theme of the two old geezers who had remained best friends for life…