Beautiful Children

Those of you clamoring to know our June book club pick (say, maybe because you're preparing to get on a plane to LA) should check the sidebar--it's Beautiful Children by Charles Bock. I'm sure Helen will set it up more thoroughly in the future, but here are some things to get you started:

• Here is Charles Bock on TitlePage.tv, where he was roundly teased for wearing a concert t-shirt under a True Value button up
• Here is Bock's complicated-but-lauded website
  
• And for extra credit this month, read The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss Jr. It covers much of the same territory as Beautiful Children, and I'd love to discuss the intersection of the two novels, as well as how interesting it is that Las Vegas is turning into a *real* city, with teenage unrest and rock bands and novels of its own.