Amazing sentence and your illuminating analysis is brilliant, as always. I'm wondering what you think of Bruce Chatwin and Pico Iyer, (both, among others, I enjoy for their writing and not so much their 'travel') and Paul Theroux, who I've never liked, I guess because I don't like his writing, period.
Hello! The little I've read of Iyer (too little to form an opinion really) has struck me a a bit watercolory in a way I don't love. And I don't think I've read more than a page or two of Chatwin. It's a real underexplored area on my literary map.
I get what you mean by 'watercolory'! Great description of the one thing that bothered me about his writing, that I couldn't put my finger on. Thanks for your reply!
"I don’t especially care about places; I care about people." Me too! When my husband and I visited Rome before we had kids, schlepping ourselves from ruin to ruin, I said, "I just wish someone would invite us up for lunch and tell me all about their life." I pictured an old woman wrapped in shawls, smelling faintly of oregano.
Amazing sentence and your illuminating analysis is brilliant, as always. I'm wondering what you think of Bruce Chatwin and Pico Iyer, (both, among others, I enjoy for their writing and not so much their 'travel') and Paul Theroux, who I've never liked, I guess because I don't like his writing, period.
Hello! The little I've read of Iyer (too little to form an opinion really) has struck me a a bit watercolory in a way I don't love. And I don't think I've read more than a page or two of Chatwin. It's a real underexplored area on my literary map.
I get what you mean by 'watercolory'! Great description of the one thing that bothered me about his writing, that I couldn't put my finger on. Thanks for your reply!
"I don’t especially care about places; I care about people." Me too! When my husband and I visited Rome before we had kids, schlepping ourselves from ruin to ruin, I said, "I just wish someone would invite us up for lunch and tell me all about their life." I pictured an old woman wrapped in shawls, smelling faintly of oregano.
I couldn't relate to this more