FAMILY. December
25, 2009 - ________________ 2010.
In progress. I start writing Double-Sawbuck (XX): Twenty Months of Daily Typewriting, with
JANUARY 2010, but see that I am writing a series of three books, Three-Ring Circus: Combining Family, Work, and Writing, and
change the name of JANUARY 2010 to FAMILY.
I read the second book of Larry McMurtry’s three memoirs, Books, Literary Life, and Hollywood, Literary Life. I read Books
when it came out. I look forward to
reading Hollywood. When it comes out. He compares the three books to Somerset
Maugham’s The Summing Up. He says he always wanted to be a man of
letters, like Somerset Maugham, and now he is one. I am a man of letters, grunt jobs, and
shouting at the wife and kids about money, unemployment between jobs. Not the circus clown, the guy who cleans up
after the elephant. And writes about it. Dead-end jobs and rejection slips. It’s a comedy. It’s farce.
Farce related to forcemeats. He went out to the charcuterie for
forcemeats. On his bicycle. I read Robin Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and
Times of an American Original.
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