The Art of Convention

There's a lot more Larry David in Kafka comes across in our public perception of him. Especially in the diaries where he can be more honest, for sure, in real life and being more like that. He would make a joke more like slyly, you know, and no, he wasn't like that. No, but in the shtick of his writing. And it comes across when wrote aloud sometimes,. There was a dramatic reading by the actor Josh Hamilton in New York City of some passages from the diaries that I selected.