Arts
Introduce yourself to Gore Vidal’s Burr (1973) with a book-club discussion of its first line. An “it” book from 1973 Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, Hamilton (musical), Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (biography), Leonora Sansay’s The Secret History: The Horrors of Santo Domingo, Michael Drexler and Ed White’s The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr, Best Enemies (documentary), Cross Fire (tv show), Nixon (film), Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Washington Irving, The Onion (satire), Saturday Night Live, Shakespeare in Love (film), Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Merwyn, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln Tina Jordan article in NYTimes here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/books/beach-reads-summer.html You can also watch this episode on https://youtu.be/PMND6DtPoeQ Get in touch @profomalley To join the First-Line Book Club click here: https://bookclubz.com/clubs/6404/join/71bf3c/