April 30, 2008

Hubert's Freaks - This is the story of Bob Langmuir, a brilliant but troubled rare-book dealer whose headlong pursuit of an archive from a 1960s Times Square freak show leads to the discovery of a trove of hitherto unknown photographs by the great American genius Diane Arbus.
posted by tellurian 16 years ago
  • "The model of reality he had painstakingly spent a lifetime cobbling together was failing in some fundamental way to correspond with the actual world, and it was freaking him out." I think we've all been there.
  • I think we've all been there. Yes, and I believe that's often why we take drugs.
  • Yes, and I believe that's often why we take drugs. 2 posts up
  • What a strange, tangled web of fascinating stories! It will be interesting to follow the author's blog to see how the saga plays out.