In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books...
I am reading:
Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination by Nicholas Parisi- Today marks the 65th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till; an event that that Rod Serling attempted to dramatize for stage and screen. It was one of the most brutal battles that Serling ever had with the censors as documented in this Smithsonian article.
During the course of his research, Parisi uncovered an additional manuscript (“Serling’s true first draft written for television”) of “Noon on Doomsday”; a manuscript that muddles the accuracy of some of Serling’s public statements on “Noon on Doomsday,” such as in his famous interview with Mike Wallace in 1959.
It’s a very moving portion of Parisi’s biography of Serling.
Despite his overall willingness to dramatize opposing points of view, Serling had one issue on which he refused to even entertain the idea that there could be two equally valid opposing perspectives: prejudice. As he famously said in 1967, “I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.”
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon- Back to Barcelona and the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books” and the Sempere & Sons bookshop still early and already had a chase scene...the pacing on this is much faster paced than The Angel’s Game.
‘The entire future looks noir, anyway’ he would declare. ‘If there’s going to be a flavour in vogue in this age of butchery, it will be the stink of falsehoods and crimes disguised in a thousand euphemisms.’
