Turns out the Hughes book is as hair-raising as Red Cavalry sounds. Good golly. But is anyone else here reading the thing or am I a Reading Group Of One?
Posted by Martha Bridegam at March 1, 2005 09:15 PMI'm bringing it with me to the TSHA meeting this weekend, but want to finish With Santa Anna first. After all, tomorrow's Texas Independence Day, and I'd feel awful if I didn't get through my pseudoliturgical state history reading this year.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at March 1, 2005 09:22 PMMy g/f's reading--and I'm peeking--Hughes' collected art writing. A lip-smacking read it is too.
Posted by: Airbrushed By The Commissars at March 2, 2005 02:29 AMI am not going to be reading it regularly because I've got too many other things to read at the moment, amongst other reasons, but I'm familiar enough with it to chip in with comments if anyone chooses to post.
Posted by: Alan Allport at March 2, 2005 04:18 AMI'll have to sit this out as well.
Posted by: Alan Hogue at March 2, 2005 07:51 AMIs it the same Hughes, Robbie?
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at March 2, 2005 07:53 AMWant to tell us about Santa Anna et al. then?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 2, 2005 04:36 PMOK, then, any comments on whether Australian popular ideas ("memes"?) about the country's founding have changed since Hughes wrote about them in the 1980s?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 3, 2005 02:35 PMBen: yeah.
Posted by: Airbrushed By The Commissars at March 3, 2005 03:46 PMRobbie: so wot'd he write about art, then?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 3, 2005 04:17 PMJust finished de la Peña yesterday, and am on page 5 of Fatal Shore.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at March 8, 2005 12:24 PM