Reading Log: Raymond Carver’s A New Path to the Waterfall
When Raymond Carver was diagnosed with terminal Stage IV lung cancer, he kept on being Raymond Carver. He kept writing and he kept reading, finding some comfort or meaning in…
Books for Christmas
Books make good presents. These are what I got this year (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The French Lieutenant's Woman are first editions). Thanks!
Happy Holidays!
I was waiting in line at the bookstore picking up a last minute gift when an older man behind me gave me this. No "L". Happy Holidays, everyone. Regular…
Powell’s Partner
(Click here to buy books!) Powell’s is a great store. As much as I love browsing brick-and-mortar used book stores, sometimes I need (or want) a particular book. Powell’s is…
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts: Watch them!
NPR Music just published the end-of-year recap of their wonderful Tiny Desk Concert series. http://www.npr.org/2014/12/16/371184887/2014-the-year-in-tiny-desk-concerts If you aren't already watching these, check out the concerts from this year, then go…
Reading Log: The Unbearable Lightness of Being -Milan Kundera
Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera is a man of ideas. His essay Testaments Betrayed (an essay in 9 parts, weighing in at 280 pages) is the most conceptually dense piece of…
Podcasts Revisited: Honorable Mentions and Updates
These are all podcasts that were either too problematic for me to recommend unreservedly or that I hadn’t listened to long enough to come to a particular opinion. In no…
Reading Log: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -Tom Stoppard
I’ve seen far too few plays. Part of this has to do with where I live. I tend to default to reading them due to a lack of reasonable alternatives.…
Revising Prose, Carlin, Euphemism and the Official Style
Richard Lanham’s book Revising Prose -now in its fourth edition- has the worst cover of any book I’ve read this year. Something about living in academia goes hand-in-hands with horrible…
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
A high school class I was covering for a few days was reading this. I took a look at it after playing them a chapter of the audiobook. The voice…