And Kennedy's reading James Bond supposedly raised that series visibility in the US.
Wonder if Obama watched The Wire -- he's reading books by two of its writers.
Mark
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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:39:29 +0000
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Obama's reading Pelecanos
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@...>
> > From TNR's blog: What Obama's Reading Bill Burton at today's WH press briefing, Oak Bluffs School Filing Center edition:
> > And here's what's on the reading list, because I know that some folks have been asking -- it's long: "The Way Home," by George Pelecanos; Tom Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded"; Richard Price's "Lush Life"; Kent Haruf's "Plainsong"; and "John Adams" by David McCullough.
> > --Michael Crowley
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> I first heard of Mosley because of one of these presidential reading stories about Clinton taking Black Betty with him to Martha's Vineyard in, I think, 1994. I picked it up that week and have been a Mosley reader ever since. It was the summer before my last year of high school.
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> It would make me happy if Pelecanos (or Richard Price) gained a few readers as well from this.
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> Chris
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