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An intemperate WALL E compulsively collecting and compacting the city’s textual waste A psycho geographer from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into the mainstream He’s all of these and ” Now for the first time the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American shores for his long awaited engagement with the memory filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travele. Would have liked it a lot if it were half as long and edited by someone who's not in love with the sound of his own voice Arty and affected this guy just can't go a paragraph without trying to remind us that he too has a poet's soul After a hundred pages it's just embarassing like that friend of a friend who just won't stop bugging you to read his manuscript The only redeeming point was being introduced to Charles Olson who sounds worth checking out
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American SmokeThe visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet“How best to describe Iain Sinclair” asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian “A literary mud larker and tip picker A Travelodge tramp his phrase A middle class dropout with a gift for bullshit also his phrase A toxicologist of the twenty first century landscape A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts. As a big fan of many Beat writers this book was a disappointment Perhaps Sinclair's road trip is too late by decades The Gary Snyder visit is interesting because Snyder is very well practiced at handling this sort of fly by literary tourism He's gracious but also insightful enough to ask Sinclair what he wants And it's clear that Sinclair doesn't know That's OK for a road trip book I suppose It's a journey of discovery right But all I discovered was that I was bored Reading about what Sinclair and his wife ate at some hotel on their way to visit old Beat icons put me to sleep Better interviews would have helped Imagine what Geoff Dyer could have done with this trip besides adding sex and drugs