A review by jackieeh
The Black Mountain Book: With Illustrations by Fielding Dawson

4.0

If you're even tangentially into Black Mountain, this is a weird good time. Fielding Dawson inflects all his memoir with a certain lost-at-sea affect that I find (in this context) strangely compelling. I like the idea that to go to this particular school, and to spend "four years and four and a half summers" there, you had to be a little lost. Contained herein: fascinating insights into little annoyances of the work study program, Charles Olson mixed feelings, and the student body sex life. I wish every school had such a chronicler, to let us revel in all the complicated drama at a safe distance.