0613e34637 It turns out there was almost nothing. Osborne's writing conveys a genuine love for the city and an appreciation of its ethos of easygoing tolerance. I think thats a myth. And as for travelogues, books like mine, I didnt find anything at all. He has since established himself as a kind of romantic anthropologist: following his characters into dissipation, then rising from the ooze and appraising them—and himself—with a lucid, journalistic eye.Who are his characters? Certainly not the young hedonists of Alex Garland's The Beach.
"Houellebecq's book was an attack on the idea of sexual liberation," he says in an elegant British accent. All relatively short, the essays possess a clipped intensity traceable to Michaels's adoration for Isaac Babel. Were all obsessed with sex, but not to the point where we just determine our whole life around it. You write about the isolation of living there. Oh, and one more thing I almost forgot: How many nights does it take to make a hard man humble?. But the sex trade is about loneliness, too. But maybe, as you say, its becoming more acute now, because of the internet and all these things that keep us essentially enclosed. New Directions, 208 pp., $21.95 Contact: Jed Lipinski Follow: Village Voice Arts & Culture Arts Books Get the Theater Newsletter Get a rundown of upcoming theater events and ticket deals in New York. Recommended." - Library Journal "In Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure, Osborne revels in the intersection of the sacred and the profane .
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