Famous People I Have Known Book

Ed McLanahan is a must read. Crackling good prose, touching and witty, with unmistakably unique voice. The stories and tales aren't deep, they skim the surface of human experience picking up enough to make them worthwhile, but don't expect high art. There's a new-journalism flair to these pieces, reading them you can feel Ed's time-time-and-place: the counter-cultural 60s. The prose sparkles in the way only good writing can. It never feels dated. Reading McClanahan is like a master class in good prose. You can learn something from these pages.