Tourist Miscellany #7
Canonical and Un-Canonical Writers
This is a great piece by Dan Kois, that reliable fellow, about the once-ubiquitous poet-songwriter Rod McKuen and his total dominance of, then total disappearance from, bookstores.
Kois treats this disappearance as a mystery to be explained. When one turns to the words on the page — my parents had a couple of these book…