Writing style

[Wilfrid]

I read your response to Jinmyo on literary interests.  Your writing style has, for me, some familiar echoes - not a criticism, I find them harmonious and reassuring.  Let me a fire a few names:  Nik Cohn, Seymour Krim, Lester Bangs, maybe Nick Kent.  Am I close with any of those?  I wish Lester Bangs had been a food writer.

[bourdain]

I've really only read Lester Bangs--when his columns were in Creem and elsewhere. It wasn't until pretty recently that I read Carburator Dung and then his bio--Let It Blurt. He was a remarkable writer--so if anything, I'm flattered. Nik Cohn and the others I haven't read. Should I?

[Wilfrid]

Nik Cohn's Heart of the World, in which he sets out to walk the length of Broadway (heading uptown), but kind of gets stuck around Times Square and Jimmy's Corner, may do it for you.  Krim and Kent were long shots.

[John Whiting]

Seymour Krim was a fine essayist of the 70s, who invented the phrase "beat generation", though he's not usually credited with it. _Shake it for the World, Motherfucker_ and _Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer_ have some penetrating insights into his contemporaries. His style is not unlike yours - shrewd intelligence often masquerading as drug-addled ravings.  

Edit: I see I'd written "drag-addled". I must have been wearing my Freudian slip.

[Wilfrid]

Glad it wasn't my imagination, John.  I sometimes think a lot of "hipster" writing in the best sense owes something to Krim - then I wonder whether it is all just a coincidence.

[wingding]

Oh,if Lester Bangs had been a food writer,and someone cooked like Birdland...or White Riot...or Pale Blue Eyes[i've been going through my tapes].