The creator of American Splendor has died at the age of seventy. I admired him, albeit with certain reservations that I summed up in this 2003 posting.
It will be interesting to see whether his work continues to be read–if “read” is the word….
P.S. Mrs. T’s reaction: “Harvey Pekar? He was kind of a grumpy guy, wasn’t he?”
Archives for July 12, 2010
TT: Going our way
Today Mrs. T and I fly from New York to San Diego to embark on the latest installment of our summer playgoing travels. We’ll be seeing two shows this week at the Old Globe, then driving up the coast to the California Shakespeare Theater and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Along the way I’ll be giving a speech to a private group about the biographer’s art, and we also plan to make a side trip to San Simeon, the home of Citizen Kane.
I have to write and file three Wall Street Journal columns along the way, so I’ve built more down time into our itinerary than usual, which may or may not mean that I’ll be able to blog with something not unlike my usual regularity. We’ll see. In any case, I promise to report on our doings as often as possible!
See you on Highway 1.
TT: Almanac
“I think there is in the heroic courage with which man confronts the irrationality of the world a beauty greater than the beauty of art.”
W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook