I got last paperback copy of OTR at the local bookstore Friday night and finished it this weekend.  It helped that my van inspection on Saturday am took 3.5 hours for minor repairs, xo I read at Bill Gray’s with coffee – not quite the ambience of fireplace with wine, toofar; but the rest of the day was rain in the maple tree outside my window – every bit as pleasing to me. 

I loved the prose style – it just swept me along (no wonder, since the introduction by Ann Charters said that JK taped together 12 foot long sheets of tracing paper and fed them into his typewriter so that he wouldn’t have to stop and change paper as often, finishing after three weeks with “a roll of paper typed as a single paragraph 120 feet longâ€).  Also appreciated JK’s deep empathy for his characters.

This is not completely off track of GPN, since I thought about Bryan often while reading, wondering if this was THE book for him, or if it was a different book or even all the  books, and maybe the poetry as well.  Thanks very much for the recommendation, kc.  I do want to read more, but the only other title that was familiar to me was “The Subterraneans.â€  I’ll follow your advice instead.