Clinton always had a book with him and, if fiction, something
hardboiled. From C-SPAN, I recall Mosley and <?> the
sports agent with the psycho sidekick. When asked about the
book du jour, he'd have praise. I don't recall that he ever
announced a favorite, but his reading habits had to be good
for publishing in general and the authors he read in
particular. I wonder if there's ever been an article listing
or analyzing his reading choices.
Joy, who also wonders what he's reading now
Mark said of Ellroy:
> Someone asked him what he thought of Mosley. He was
dismissive. He
> made some catty remarks about how terribly PC it was
that Clinton had
> named Mosley as his favorite mystery writer (clearly
implying that it
> should have been Ellroy). He then scoffed that
Mosley could not
> possibly have written Red Death without having read
his own Big Nowhere
> (that's the one with the Commie stuff, right?), even
though, according
> to Ellroy, Mosley had claimed never to have read it.
Ellroy seemed to
> be serious miffed with Mosley.
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