Wednesday, February 09, 2011

The criminal imagination ...

... After Patricia. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I am just finishing The Patricia Highsmith Reader, which Schenkar edited, and I am also halfway through her superb biography of the writer -- biography at its absolute best. I think she is half in love with Highsmith -- maybe even more than half. I know I am. Which is saying something. There is something contagious about Highsmith adn her work -- and I do mean contagious.

1 comment:

  1. John Brumfield8:54 PM

    I'm almost done reading that same terrific bio, Frank. As intolerable as Pat must have been to know even casually, she had an admirable integrity in living her life her way and a single-minded focus on her writing, although God only knows how she got it done.

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