Alan Lidji, Principal Lidji Design
Current book: Indignation by Philip Roth. A charming story that recalls his early classic Portnoy’s Complaint. I ate up the first 120 pages and now find myself uninterested in finishing it. Earlier, I read The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck as our economy crashed all around us. It’s fascinating to think that only 75 years ago there was such a disaster in our country, starvation and hopelessness on scale that is really unimaginable today. And to see how Americans coped makes anything we are going through seem inconsequential by comparison.
Bookmarks: Designobserver.com globalpost.com tabletmag.com cartype.com
Magazines, newspapers: New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Times and Dallas Morning News
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I loved the Worst Hard Time. I thought I knew something about the Dust Bowl, but that was an astonishing story. Lightening generated by dust? Animals choking on Dust.
Reading these accounts puts things in some perspective.