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Aug. 13th, 2003 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labrujahI have been engrossed in The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup by Susan Orlean for two days. Here is what is gripping me: That is her on the cover, in the bullfighter outfit! That's a brassy move, right? And she's peeking over her shoulder in this confident, coy way, like yeah I'm wearing red lipstick with my red hair, and I wrote this book too.
I have been having a Charlie Kaufman moment, reading this book and seeing her in the outlines of her writing -- the invisible reporter, and the ways she erases and highlights her presence. She is a lot like Joan Didion, kind of a well-off white woman observing and dissecting and asking skeptical questions and also falling in love with things.
I love this kind of writing so much, I've been steeping in Capote lately too. Also I have been watching the way she does her endings -- short pieces that rise at the end on a puff of air with a final phrase or quote.
I have been having a Charlie Kaufman moment, reading this book and seeing her in the outlines of her writing -- the invisible reporter, and the ways she erases and highlights her presence. She is a lot like Joan Didion, kind of a well-off white woman observing and dissecting and asking skeptical questions and also falling in love with things.
I love this kind of writing so much, I've been steeping in Capote lately too. Also I have been watching the way she does her endings -- short pieces that rise at the end on a puff of air with a final phrase or quote.
