Everything’s Up to Date in Panama City
I read a James Lee Burke novel yesterday,
The Glass Rainbow. In it is a character, Alafair,
Dave Robicheaux’s daughter, a would-be novelist.
Dave, of course, is a
a bait shop. I saw Alafair Burke at a Gulf Coast Writers Conference.
She’s a real person. A real writer. I just ordered Wolves at the Door
from J. P. S. Brown. I read his Jim Kane at the New Iberia Public Library
when I was digging at The Shadows. They made a movie of Jim Kane,
Pocket Money, with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin. Did I see from Netflix
they have made a movie of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
I read the whole series. I read a Christopher Hitchens article about the books
in a discarded Vanity Fair magazine at the library. Everything’s up to date
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