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  1. JSO

    Howdy, bumming down the east coast

    I was told to read it during a pretty bad time in my life. I was drinking and using pretty heavily, and fucking up my life and blaming my behavior on my dad and old pastors and whoever else I could. That book was a wake-up for me, showed me that all I did was my own damn fault, and I couldn't...
  2. JSO

    Howdy, bumming down the east coast

    East of Eden was a life-changer. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson or The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner were the best I read last year. I will always read anything by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Currently trucking through The Recognitions by William Gaddis, which is a fucking brick. Yourself?
  3. JSO

    Howdy, bumming down the east coast

    Been living in Brooklyn, working at a bookstore, then recently I got fed up, realized there was nothing that had to be done, and I didn't want to do that anymore. I'm headed down to Florida, currently on a buddy's couch in northern VA. Hope to hit Charlotte next, or perhaps Raleigh, I think I...