Archive for November, 2010
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Tin Drum
So I was reading the 1959 novel The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass, all about Oskar Matzerath — whose childhood in Germany coincides with World War II, who willfully stops growing at age three and becomes inseparable from his toy drum. And it hit me: a writer this unapologetically weird had to have influenced John [...]
