New LFTRR Tackles the Question: Should We Write?
In this episode James J. Patterson reads from Simone de Beauvoir and DC's bookworm philosopher Richard Peabody
In this episode of Live from the Reading Room, James J. Patterson reads selections from Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins and Richard Peabody's The Richard Peabody Reader all in pursuit of answering the question: Should I write?
The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer’s poetry and prose, filling an important gap in the literary world. As a publisher, Peabody’s steadfast dedication to that which is new, challenging, innovative and dynamic has won him a wide reputation among writers whose work he has championed. This volume demonstrates those same values, embodied in nearly four decades of fiercely smart, sophisticated, and often very funny writing. From his first collection of poems, I’m in Love With the Morton Salt Girl, to his most recent collection of short stories, Blue Suburban Skies, Peabody has established and developed a thoroughly unique voice, both warm and piercing, to deliver content that ranges from the hilarious, as in the short story “Flea Wars,” to the bittersweet, as in the poem “The Other Man is Always French,” to the elegiac, as in the poem in “Civil War Pieta,” to the absurd, as in the rollicking farce of the short story, “Bad Day at Ikea.”