A friend of mine–very smart friend–bought all four Garrett novels and he has been reading them one at a time. i was very interested in his reaction to Harangue, a book that astounded me also:
I read the whole thing yesterday, while recuperating (still, dammit) from this laryngitis. I had planned to read “The Driver” first, but I had left it in my apt..
So of the three I’ve read thus far, I think “Harangue” is by far Garrett’s best. By far! The “precious mob” off Washington Square park is just fantastic; it reminds me of not a few characters I knew in college. The descriptions of the wind catch you from the first page and don’t let go. Do you think Grinling, the Harvard-educated poet who wants to disown the U.S., is modeled on T.S. Eliot? I can’t help thinking he must be. Sort of an Ayn Randian figure in Jael, whom one really comes to like as soon as the circumstances surrounding her father are explained.
I love the image of the bank that won’t fail, on which it’s impossible to have a run. Makes me think of the Citicorp hq on Lex, or any of the other sovereign-wealth-infused funds in town. The people secretly *want* them to fail, and thereby forgive their debt!
And that last line! “Fitzjerald is the sort of man who doesn’t know what a woman means when she says yes.” Fantastic!
“Cinder Buggy” still has the best potential has a chamber opera, methinks, but this is the best literary effort of the lot. It should be promoted far and wide; I’m going to buy a bunch of copies for friends as birthday presents.
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Garret is great Jeff, I just had a suggestion about the blog. Perhaps you could increase the number of posts on the initial main page passed ten. It seems awfully sparse, and good posts disappear much too quickly in this format. Thanks.
ok, the number of stories on the front index is now doubled to 20. Hope that doesn’t break something! But it seems fine. Thank you for the suggestion.
I think a more hierarchical presentation, in the style of antiwar.com’s page, would be better than just increasing the length of the blog page. The latest blog note should be the biggest, with other blog notes getting less and less space as they get older, up to just links and titles, the idea being to put as much stuff in view at once as possible, and adding a bit of stickiness to discussions. (Highly discussed topics deserve more space as well.)
It looks great Jeff, thanks!
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