BOOK RANTS

Jim Carroll continued!
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnjuliusreel/p/a-writer-of-too-many-talents?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1xse9k

New Rant! Watch or Read!
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnjuliusreel/p/caught-in-a-powerful-ambivalence?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1xse9k

I had some thoughts on Hyperidean Press after reading HORIZONTAL RAIN, the excellent debut novel by its editor, Udith Dematagoda. (Link in comments).

In The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll is a hardened Holden Caulfield who writes about his experiences of New York City, between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, when he fell into delinquency and he**in addiction.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnjuliusreel/p/heroic-delinquency?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1xse9k

I was able to write about my passion for Jack Gilbert's poetry, thanks to the Substack literary magazine ROMANTICON.

"I wander through these woods making songs of you": On the Love and Work of Jack Gilbert For my classes with study-abroad students in Seville, Spain, I’ve got a spiel prepared for each nook and cranny of the city we visit.

Shakespeare doesn’t appear in the rant, but James does. Both produced at the highest level late in their careers:https://johnjuliusreel.substack.com/p/squeezing-that-lemon