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- Subject: Re: the wonks are in: what do they read for fun?
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- Summary: (Clinton's crew) (besides economic reports, that is)
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:08:00 GMT
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- Fiona Webster writes...
- >Have you noticed? The popular press is indulging their feature
- >writers by proclaiming _ad_nauseum_ the "cultural shift" attendant on
- >Bill Clinton's victory, yet while there are ample references to
- >changing iconography within pop music, movies, and television, I've
- >seen very little on the subject of books.
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- >In the meantime, I'm glad to hear I'm in with the Clinton crowd <thin
- >smile> as a reader of detective novels. Which authors are supposed to
- >be _au_courant_--does anyone know? James Lee Burke, perhaps?
- >Lawrence Block? Bill Pronzini? Andrew Vachss?
- > --bemused and befuddled,
- > but enormously relieved,
- > Fiona
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- I'm not quite hep to all this "cultural" techtonics that the popular media is
- apparently on about, but all this talk about "in" and "out" and "in" and "out"
- sent me scampering for a cold shower.
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- I'm not exactly sure what crowd I'm "in" with--I didn't vote this time around
- (couldn't conscience votin' for any of the bastards. I won't say that all three
- of the blokes are Nazis, but I'm sure any one of them and Hitler would have
- talked long into the night) I suppose I'd like to get "in" with all the
- folks readin' the detective novels, but whenever I go to one of the local
- booksellers and ask if they have any Raymond Chandler, I get asked, "Ain't
- he an actor or somethin'?"
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- Last time I voted, I was reading Pynchon and wrote in Hunter S. Thomson for
- President. We (as a whole) got four years of the Bushmeister (known to
- slightly wonky Middle Age botanists as the traditional family Dictatormis
- Albus, I believe), which were to my eyes indistinguishable from the previous
- eight years of Reichsfuhrer Reagan's reign, but at least Pynchon wrote his
- first novel in seventeen years.
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- The biggest bit of "culture" unique to the Clinton President-electancy that
- I've come across [cough] so far is the interview with Jessica Flowers in the
- latest Penthouse, in which Ms. F. discusses such relevant information about
- the President Elect as the dimensions of the President Electial dallywhanger
- (which gave me brief flashbacks to _Breakfast of Champions_ [keeping this
- here discussion strictly literary, mind you]), and his...er...bedside manner.
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- In general, same old same old. Makes me think we might as well push the
- button and give the cockroaches a whack at this civilization thing.
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