Tête-à-Tête

I think I'm in for a good long nonfiction binge after an embarrassingly prolonged reading dry spell. I'm just too much of a snob to pick up anything that's been on a best-seller list, and don't even get me started on commercial fiction. I finally realized all I want to read right now are biographies.

Trial #1: Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley. It's a different take on a biography, depicting their lives in terms of each other and their relationship. Never before has it been so easy to read about scandalous affairs and sexual freedom while coming off as intellectual. Very highly recommended.