Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.
Scott McClanahanThis [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.
Scott McClanahanThe only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.
Scott McClanahan"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."
Scott McClanahan