I love bar doormen. They are, for the most part, super chill and easy to talk to. What I love even more is if I spot them reading on the job. I caught Zack with his book pants down as we were getting ready for him to inspect our IDs. He had his book propped open on the podium at his post, complete with mini lamp clipped on the edge.
After getting a glass of wine I interviewed him over the smoking patio fence. Zack usually tries to read at work. "Makes the night fly by faster when I read." I even commented on his little set up with the lamp and all. "I got it at an airport...comes in handy."
Zack's reading Echo Burning by Lee Child. He calls it "throwaway fiction" that follows an ex-military cop who tackles bad guys who get in his way as he tries to save the damsel in distress. Justice! Sweet, sweet, justice!
Zack is really into contemporary noir which led me to talk how I enjoy that genre too, especially LA noir. Then I went on a tangent about John Fante. (Man, his stuff is good).
His favourite book? A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. When I told him that a handful of people have told me that they also considered this one of their faves he opted to pick another book!
"I'm going to go with Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins." The book has every from aliens, redheads, bombs, a love story, and a pack of Camels. (Ciggies). Adding this to my Goodreads list? Don't mind if I do!
I had enough time for one more question because throngs of people were starting to trickle in. There was a pregnant pause when I asked Zack what his own book would be about if he had a chance to write one. "I think it would be an autobiography where I would take lots of liberties."
Mmmmhmmmm
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