Over boeken, literaire reflecties en het web van literatuur, door Niek de Greef. Werner Herzog, Paul Theroux, V.S. Naipaul en meer. Nederlandse en Engelstalige boeken.
I am reading Photowork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, edited by Sasha Wolf. It is an instructive little book for the photographer. The answers to the questions about style and genre are especially revealing. There are hardly any photographers who care about style and genre. Many reject the concepts. Fun for analysts, in retrospect, at best. Certainly, these are not things the photographer should be concerned with while doing the work. Before you know it, they become self-imposed creative constraints.
How can you organize your life as self-employed and earn enough to do what you are good at and love?
In this free book, – ISMM – the Incredible Secret Money Machine – Don Lancaster explains how to achieve this. The examples in the book are outdated, but the principles are still current. The book is also very readably written.
It has always felt strange that I have never read anything by Cormac McCarthy because he is systematically in the top 10 with The Road in the reading lists of books of all time.
Having finally read the book, I can confirm that The Road is haunting but great.
A father and son who remain unnamed trek through a country dominated by violent cannibalistic gangs looking for food after a disaster that has turned everything into ashes.
It is a desperate story that nevertheless ends hopeful.
I read that Cormac McCarthy is also the author of No Country For Old Men, a movie I did see.
Now I want to read more of his. Blood Meridian is at the ready.
