Adam Gopnik’s The Table Comes First
What’s today? December 28th? And I’d like to complete my Books Read in 2011 post by this weekend, especially since classes start up again on Tuesday (remorselessly early!) So . . . the book I…
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Let the Great World Spin
The year’s almost done, and I have a huge stack of books I want to get to before the new term begins. The next few posts will be sad references to titles that deserve much…
View PostLight reading Round-up
Let’s see. . . Scanning my list of books finished but not yet blogged, I see a good-enough mystery by Jonathan Kellerman (Mystery) and another one by Lee Child, an earlier Jack Reacher novel that…
View PostMen, Ageing, and Memory
I see that I began writing this post mid-to-late November. I ddn’t think I’d been away quite so long, but it’s been busy, as always . . . I’ve squeezed some worthy reading into my…
View PostCarson and Grief
Is it really true? Did I last post here on October 19th? Almost a month ago? By then, I had finished Anne Carson’s Nox, a moving, puzzling, challenging, and powerful work — which I suppose…
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