On the Edge (Edward St. Aubyn)
Edward St. Aubyn’s 1998 novel rather recently got its U.S. release. I bought this book in Powell’s last year and just now got around to it. I have not read…
Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”
Steinbeck's prose has never been -for me, at least- so strong a thing as to recommend his writing to me in and of itself. Fortunately, the man is a compelling…
Reading Log: John Muir’s ‘My First Summer in the Sierra,’ In Which Very Many Plants are Described
I have recently come into a more nuanced appreciation of the out-of-doors, simultaneously for mature and more childlike than that which had previously characterized my experience in the wilderness, which…
Reading Log: ‘California Ghost Town Trails’ and the Pleasure of Secret Knowledge
This was a charming little book. It’s badly outdated -don’t use it as a literal guide- but it’s a wonderful history told in a voice that’s interesting not because of…