Buy This Book. Buy It and Read It, Punk.
M ore than a year has passed since author Charlie Geer sent us his first installment of Noted Abroad. The column, which appears every Tuesday in our humble pages, chronicles Geer’s experiences as a writer and teacher in Puente Genil, the small town in southern Spain where he currently lives. Geer is a former professor at the College of Charleston and author of Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-Day Charleston. DSM caught up with him this week. He is back in the U.S. for a spell, visiting his hometown and driving up and down the east coast. He carved out the time to answer our questions.
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All Three of Them Are Lonely
One week we’d like to do Wednesday’s post. Just so we can write “Tuesday’s gone.” You see, we’re from the South, so it’s OK for us to like Lynyrd Skynyrd. Now that we’ve covered the reference we can stick to our current schedule. The British are gone, but that doesn’t mean Aravind Adiga didn’t respect their literature — a different take on the late postcolonial fad. Chinese solitude, music and tabloids, none of which have ever been absent, never will. Music will always make us high. Women celebrities, take a hint from your 18th century counterparts and fight back. And the Chinese remain lonely, which ain’t necessarily a bad thing. We hope none of you missed Key West this past week. – Andrew Geer
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Tuesday's Literary Briefing
