The horror author on Dr Seuss, the radicalism of Earl Thompson, and the perfect whodunnit
I was five years old, in our third floor apartment in Stratford, Connecticut. The book was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr Seuss.Probably And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. It is the perfect whodunnit.Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I was totally invested, totally. You know the way kids were about Harry Potter at the height of the craze? That was me with Ralph and Jack.I was 12 years old when I read Studs Lonigan, by James T Farrell.
A year or two later it was supplanted by Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as my perfect Depression book.Lord of the Flies: it was about kids, and I was a kid. The plot was simple and the descent into savagery was believable. I read it at the age of 12 – it was only later that I grasped the symbolism of the severed pig’s head and the sexual subtext. I felt that if I could do something like that, I’d be happy. And guess what? I was right.A Garden of Sand by Earl Thompson.
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