Recently read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Written 1961 about a dystopian society ruled by homosexuals. The protagonist is pretending to be gay to keep his government job, but comes under suspicion for secretly having an affair with a woman. Burgess is better known for A Clockwork Orange.
Am currently reading Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe. It’s set in Miami, where anti-Castro Cubans rule and white people are fast becoming a minority. But things don’t line up neatly; Wolfe goes deep into the complexities and hypocricies, always with brutal, incisive humor.
Am planning to go back and read all of Wolfe’s books and articles which I somehow missed years ago: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; and The Right Stuff.
I did read, and LOVED, Bonfire of the Vanities, a viciously hilarious skewering of the unholy alliance between white Manhattan liberals and ghetto black activists, with one character—a shakedown artist— clearly a Rev. Al / Rev. Jesse composite.
Written in the 80s, it deserves a revival now in light of all the BLM noise. Forget the Tom Hanks movie. Read the book.
Also, recently re-read Orwell’s 1984. Understood it better this time than I did when in high school.
An exceptional cookbook is The Catch and The Feast, by Joie and Bill
McGrail. (Pub.1969, still available online.) Big city, high society girl marries a country boy. He teaches her how to shoot, hunt, and field dress the catch!! She then turns the catch into elaborate gourmet meals fit for Henry VIII’s table. Entertaining reading, lots of mouth watering pictures and recipes. I recommend this one for hunters and preppers!
Thanks for this thread, Sam!
I’m a big fan of Tom Wolfe but was not aware of “Back to Blood”. That one somehow got past me. Thanks, I’m checking it out.