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After this weekend's reading, I really want to rewatch Mad Men. I always thought that kind of office depiction was an exaggeration of the 1960s', but based on the history of FSG, it seems to be legitimate.
I just finished watching Mad Men in December and felt the same way. I feel lost TV-wise now that it's over and was curious if this would be on a list of books to watch if you miss the show. I couldn't find that or when Junot Díaz called the book "Mad Men for the literary world" but the "salacious" nature of the book does seem to be a recurring theme in how it was marketed.
ReplyDeleteI was curious about seeing the quoted reviews and as a tangent it seems that the Boston Globe's Laura Collins-Hughes felt the book was only good so far as it centered around Straus:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2013/08/03/book-review-hothouse-the-art-survival-and-survival-art-america-most-celebrated-publishing-house-farrar-straus-and-giroux-boris-kachka/Dg2n4WEDI4czkkEAFBRwbO/story.html
Is Hothouse a beach read?
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/06/these-are-books-you-should-read-summer/314306/