6 posts tagged Wodehouse
“She was kind of intense, if you know what I mean - kind of spiritual. She was perfectly pleasant, and drew me out about golf and all that sort of thing; but all the time I felt that she considered me an earthy worm whose loftier soul-essence had been carelessly left out of his composition at birth. She made me wish that I had never seen a musical comedy or danced on a supper table on New Year’s Eve.”
“P. G. Wodehouse is enjoying a popular revival thanks in part to W. W. Norton re-releasing some of his books with nice, attention-grabbing covers.” —The Millions
A Wodehouse Revival? This is simply stage one of the Wodehouse Revolution.
“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
-P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
Vol. 1 Brooklyn shares their story of discovering the novels of P. G. Wodehouse via the evergreen Canadian punk outfit Propagandhi.
“Less Talk was actually a much more in your face affair, which took on everybody from Nazis to big oil companies, and really made the listener want to go out and free a bunch of primates from some university laboratory. All that, and it persuaded young minds to seek out P. G. Wodehouse novels, probably thinking that they were stories about killing fascists and smashing corporations.”
Check in over at Vol. 1 and share your own music-to-lit memories. As for me, The Sea and the Bells by The Rachel’s led me directly to that other punk legend, Pablo Neruda.
Look at these beautiful new P. G. Wodehouse paperbacks from Norton. Just look at them!
