Making shit up, reading, complaining, laughing loudly and too long.
Adventurers, mystics, book lovers.
Right now: Gillian Welch. Always: Billie Holiday.
Wonder Boys, The Thin Man series, Annie Hall
True crime, all the way
Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle. Anne Lamott and Elizabeth Gilbert. David Sedaris, Dorothy Parker, David Rackoff. Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Shakespeare. Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Dickens and Poe. Who are you reading? Lend me books. I'm hungry!
James Francis Joseph Taggart, grandfather, father, self-made man, soldier, strongman, lover of words.