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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Rachel Loden on Poetry Daily
If you go quickly, you can read a great little poem by Rachel Loden on the Poetry Daily site: “What the Gravedigger Needs” Hotel Imperium is a favorite of mine…
Tagged poems, poetry, rachel loden
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Reading Proust – 1
A week or so ago I signed up as a member of a small group of bloggers reading Proust. Since then I have been making my very slow way through Swann’s Way (yep, the $8.95 cheap-ass bastard edition– after spot-comparing … Continue reading
Tagged fiction, memory, proust, reading log
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Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
This is how much I like Vernor Vinge’s writing: I purchased Rainbows End (there really is no apostrophe in the title) the first time I saw it, in hardback at full cover price, without looking at the price, the blurbs, … Continue reading
Tagged reading log, scifi, vernor vinge
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Ernest and Bertram
Presenting Ernest and Bertram. As seen at Sundance and banned by the good folks at the Creative Television workshop. Love the soundtrack…
Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
I was excited to discover that– serendipitously– an online book discussion group was going to be discussing Catcher in the Rye just as I was finishing my re-reading. Unfortunately, the second thread in the conversation revolved around whether or not … Continue reading
Tagged reading log, salinger
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Jill Greenberg Photography
Apparently there is some controversy over how Jill Greenberg provokes the small children to cry… I just think the photos are fantastic. Particularly when paired with her monkey portraits!
Tagged Art, jill greenberg, monkeys, Photography
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Why Dana Stevens Shouldn’t Try to Be Anthony Lane
http://www.slate.com/id/2145157/
Finishing Salinger; Bingeing on Vinge
Finished Catcher in the Rye. It’s always a pleasure to go back to a book that I loved– and remember so well– from my adolescence. It was a lot like meeting an old friend, one of the ones who could … Continue reading
Buttonhole Books
Bookslut reports that NPR is asking authors about their buttonhole books, “the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby.” I have a small menagerie of books that fit this cateogry, the ones I have bought– some many times– … Continue reading
Tagged books, poetry, reading
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For Gabby
Sometimes there is no direct comfort. The coffee is black sand in my mouth. My blankets are sandpaper. I can’t curl far enough to disappear. I sit and wait but it refuses to rain. These times it’s better to give … Continue reading
Freedomland
Julianne Moore plays Brenda, who walks through a low-income housing development in a daze, her hands badly cut and bleeding, to the hospital. She’s almost incoherent, possibly stoned, but she tells Detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) that she was … Continue reading
Tagged cinema, film, review, Screening Log
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Public Access Bully Corner
What’s next for William H. Macy? Besides bleeding… William H. Macy interviewed on a new show from The Simpsons…
Caught up in Catcher
Re-reading Catcher in the Rye for the first time in a couple of decades. What a splendid book. Like many youngsters, I used to identify with Holden. Now I recognize the strange blend of a character that is at once … Continue reading
Tagged novel, reading log, salinger
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The Myth of Declining Poetry Publication
From 1993-2004, the number of books in the poetry/drama category of US trade publications grew almost four times over. I have no numbers, but I imagine that small press and online publications grew at least 100x. The decline of mainstream … Continue reading
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Fiskadoro (Denis Johnson)
Fiskadoro, Denis Johnson’s second novel, is a post-apocalyptic fever dream set in the Florida Keys, where a large group of people have survived thanks to two missiles that fell to earth as duds. Only the Cuban government– known solely as … Continue reading
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Ange Mlinko on A Prairie Home Companion
Mlinko asks: Why does this feel like some sort of joke at the expense of poets, from beginning to end? Or am I reading too much into another meaningless non sequitur of a role for interchangeable starlets? I answer, in … Continue reading