April 19th, 2008
I bought books recently and will list them here like a certain collector I know: Watt and Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnameable) by Beckett, the collected short stories of Jean Rhys, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev and The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme. All Souls by Christine Schutt. I also got Attempts at a Life by Danielle Dutton and I’m probably the most excited about that one because I had been reading about her for so long (here and here and here). Another writer that is new to me is Amina Cain. I’m getting really interested in the fiction put out by Les Figues Press. So much so that I just subscribed to their email newsletter!
- Now that the semester is winding down I’d like to be in a book club, ideally a Beckett book club. If you would like to read a lot of Beckett this summer, tell me or comment.
- I finally found out where the expression “canary in the coal mine” comes from and what it means.
- This is gross.
- Bill Nye the Science Guy is cute:
“Comfort food: A single slice of organically raised bacon, from the froufrou hippie grocery down the street. Fry that with a few leaves of my homegrown chard. That’s living. You get the bitter with the fat and the salt.”