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Drinks with Tony Book Club Upcoming July/August 2009 The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave Nick Cave has gone and wowed me again. Just when I was yawning at his shows when he's play "God Is In The House", AGAIN, he has a midlife flip out, grows a '70s porn star 'stache and puts together Grinderman. Then The Bad Seeds record Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Oh, and The Proposition. Don't get me started. Gush, gush. The Death of Bunny Munro isn't written by the same man who was word drunk 20 years ago when he published his first novel and fans like me did the excrutiating thing --- we read it. Originally penned as a script for John Hillcoat (The Proposition) to direct and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast, The Proposition) to star as Bunny, this novel reads like the book Chuck Palaniuk wishes he could write. Dark, depraved and utterly engaging. Not to diss on Chuck, he's a great writer, but has succumbed to the clever drug. He has a following, but the following is part of the Bukowski disease. The ...he can do no wrong... type thing. It can ruin a writer. Nick Cave. Thank you. The book is a pleasure to read....and check out my interview with Nick for The Believer in September. The same month the novel is available for purchase. -Tony DuShane Previous picks All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison Hick by Andrea Portes Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me by Sarah Katherine Lewis All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow Here's my interview with Barlow for Mother Jones: |
