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Monday, September 23, 2024

Writing, a poem by Charles Bukowski: August 16

Writing

Writing
a poem by Charles Bukowski
1991

Often it is the only thing between you and impossibility.
No drink, no woman's love, no wealth can match it.
Nothing can save you except writing.
It keeps the walls from falling.
The hordes from closing in.
It blasts the darkness.
Writing is the ultimate psychiatrist,
the kindliest god of all the gods.
Writing stalks death.
It knows no quit,
and writing laughs at itself, at pain.
It is the last expectation, the last explanation.
That's what it is.

Mary McGrory, on writing:

If there is a secret to writing, I haven't found it yet.

All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.
- Mary McGrory.

The Far Side of the Dollar

The Far Side of the Dollar
by Ross Macdonald.

Vintage Crime / Black Lizard.
First published (1965).
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0679768653
ISBN-13: 978-0679768654

Description:

Crime fiction.

“Ross Macdonald must be ranked high amongst American thriller-writers.” – Times Literary Supplement (London).

In The Far Side of the Dollar, Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school – and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters – and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse? The result is Macdonald at his most exciting, delivering 1,000-volt shocks to the nervous system while uncovering the venality and depravity at the heart of the case.

“Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin.” – The Atlantic.