I recommend reading books by Martin Amis. My favorite of the ones I read is Time’s Arrow. I saw him read in the early 1990s at Chapters, a great bookstore in Washington, DC. In addition to getting books signed, I had him autograph this broadside from Black Oak Books in Oakland.
Joseph Heller’s great novel Catch-22 was published in 1961 I strongly recommend his second novel Something Happened which was published in 1974. It’s really admirable that Heller wrote something completely different than Catch-22. It’s really underrated. It lulls you to sleep over many pages where not much happens and then it blindsides you. On the other hand, I would not recommend his third novel Good as Gold from 1979. It’s satirical but I wasn’t amused when I read it. Maybe 40 years later, I might like it better.
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) is an excellent film based on a fine autobiographical novel by Joe Connelly. It’s not even on Blu-ray. I have the DVD.
There are also two fine novels about being an EMT by another former EMT:
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I saw Ken Kesey speak at Shepherd University in West Virginia. I am guessing it was in the 1990s. He was rambling but entertaining. I think anyone in West Virginia who had ever been a hippie was there. I felt like I was in a 1960s time warp.
I first became familiar with it through John O’Hara’s 1934 novel Appointment in Samarra.
Somerset Maugham used it in his 1933 play Sheppey which is where O’Hara got it from. It’s an old Mesopotamian tale.
There are some great ones in the replies.
This is part of their war against books and facts they don’t like
They attack teachers, too
Start with Pandora’s Box (1929) a great silent film in which she plays Lulu. It would certainly be on my list of top ten silent films. The great Criterion Collection two-disc DVD version is out of print. I posted a link to a version on YouTube. I assume it’s in the public domain by now.
She wrote a book that was published in 1982. I also added the review from the New York Times.
Sad! 