Brief book reviews and book-related posts. I’m reading and reflecting instead of pursuing a formal MFA. || Header image: Reconciliation Elegy, R. Motherwell
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14 Dec 2021
I’m a beginner writer but an intermediate human.
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Found for free. I’m going to learn something from this, when I read it.
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Jun 15
Having finished Knausgaard’s The Morning Star, I’m wanting something compulsively readable, but also fiending for a woman up in here. The face-off:
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Jun 15
My son asked, “Can you make a living being a really good guy and writing well?” And I answered, “I think that’s George Saunders,” but now I have to read him and see. Also, I know GS teaches at Syracuse, so his income is from more than writing.
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Jun 14
It’s the kind of suspenseful reading where I have to block the coming lines with my bookmark, so I don’t jump ahead.
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Jun 13
I went to a library sale aiming to find treasures to resell, but most of these are for me—especially Marina Warner on fairy tales and Robert Coover with a foreword by William Gass.
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Jun 13
This kid graduated high school tonight, a kid full of hard-won independence, humor, loyalty, and unshirking opinion. Absolutely and always my favorite person to be around. ☄️ Semper ad meliora, Mikey.
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Jun 12
“[A]lmost anyone has the power to change the way the whole world sees and acts and lives, with little more than curiosity, some learning, and a passionate discipline…”
Heartening to hear supported what I thought improbable since the 1800s (the time period a hunch). @genese_grill
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Jun 12
I mean, if you tried to give this to me, I would protest because it seems valuable, but put it in a free library and it’s my gold.
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Jun 11
The warmth and humor in this book that softens its raw intellectual heft and labyrinthine plot…I get giddy. (Infinite Jest)
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Jun 11
Chapter 36: Ahab reveals his metaphysical crusade, Starbuck responds, “God keep me!—keep us all!”
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Jun 11
Moby and Infinite Jest feel like (highly rewarding) work; Knausgaard is a breeze.
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Jun 10
This is so enjoyable, but where’s he going with it? Is it just going to be a suspense novel or are we talking about God and destiny, here?
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Jun 10
Stickers as bookmark in Infinite Jest, used circa 1999. It had a playfully ironic, ridiculously school-marmy feel then, not like today.
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Jun 10
Threw my back out carrying books, I guess. No, seriously, it was a bag of dog food and the only cure reading in bed. The Cetology chapter was pretty much a bust, but Melville recoups soon thereafter.
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Jun 9
Rereading IJ in my day-glo orange shorts feels about right.
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Jun 9
This big baddy came up last night with the teenager. Today I calculate that he and I could read it by the time he leaves for college at the rate of about 16 pages a day.
Fucking. Bring it.
(The edition I read 20 years ago, bottom, and a newer edition for him.)
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Jun 9
Found a looker this morning, an important 1969 anthology of New York School poets. Really a beautiful book with striking portraits and artwork.
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