Because the stuff that’s most inappropriate is oftentimes the most necessary and the most beautiful.Ī couple of weeks ago, I finished The Nazi and the Barber, a hilarious Edgar Hilsenrath novel people have been telling me for years to read. It’s about embracing the profoundly profane, the absurd.
It’s not a search for the forbidden, or embracing paeans to violence and salaciousness - I’ve nothing against either, but that shit’s everywhere. But I was, and still am, definitely attracted to good books deemed controversial, that someone felt the need to keep out of someone else’s hands for whatever reason: Catch-22, Lolita, Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front. When I was younger, it wasn’t out of the ordinary to stumble across a book that had been banned in some school district or library system - “banned in Boston,” they used to say, often tongue-in-cheek.
Can you elaborate on the “shit I’ve been thinking about?”
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