July 2010
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Long List for the Man Booker Prize →
Thrilled that Skippy Dies by Paul Murray is longlisted. Heartbroken that Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor didn’t make it. It’s just plain wrong.
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Leon Neyfakh on Reader's Despair Syndrome →
From The New York Observer.
Follow-up post
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"Look At Me!" by Maureen Tkacik →
From the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Critical Library: Lorin Stein →
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
Axel’s Castle: The Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson
Studies in Classic American Literature by Harold Bloom
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick
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“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine...”
– How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley, p. 228-229
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I Am Love
I just got home from Cobble Hill Cinemas, where I saw I Am Love, an Italian film by Luca Guadagnino, starring Tilda Swinton. I walked out feeling like I’d been through a whirlwind, the sensory elements were so powerful. The cinematography and score were such that this film must be seen in the theater. Gasps were audible throughout the film as plot undulations and climaxes occurred. On...
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August 2009
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Flips, stripes, and all that jazz
Imagine my delight when I heard that the New York Review of Books was going to publish another Elaine Dundy novel, following The Dud Avocado. I stumbled upon it at Three Lives, the fantastic West Village bookshop that has quickly become my favorite in the city. I finished it this morning on the C train on my way to work. I had a few problems with The Dud Avocado. I was bothered by the silly plot...
:) RT @GraywolfPress @chapmanchapman @MaudNewton @robspill Free books on the NYC subway: http://bit.ly/FKfOu
Times Online reports on disclosures of William Golding’s violence in unpublished autobiography http://tinyurl.com/kkyusx via @cteicher
I enjoy letter writing so much! Wish I did it more often. Maybe my hand wouldn’t get quite so sore if I did.
Far superior to The Dud Avocado, and just as much, if not more, fun to read.
Nearly finished with The Old Man and Me, the latest Elaine Dundy resurrected by NY Review of Books.
The cable company is holding me hostage tomorrow. My appointment is anywhere from 10am to 8pm. Going to be the worst day ever.
Shakespeare potluck & reading with friends is my new favorite Thursday night activity. I played Don Pedro…meddling matchmaker.
Just had an epic day of work, yoga, sushi, Much Ado About Nothing, & ginger cookies…too many ginger cookies…cream-filled.
Watching Pretty In Pink and marvelling at Molly Ringwald’s clothes and James Spader’s hair.
Why is Blaine’s hair SO flat and awful at the end of this movie? I guess it reflects his depressed demeanor.
RT @MaudNewton: Molly Ringwald, actress & sometime book reviewer, pays tribute to John Hughes. http://tinyurl.com/mdkgj3 (via @mariemockett)
Finally made an appt for an Internet installation. Reached my breaking point.
One book into my Russia project: Eugene Onegin is finished. Pushkin’s prose is up next, found at Three Lives, my new fave bookshop.
True Blood obsessed
“Once more an idler, now he smothers/The emptiness that plagued his soul/By making his the thoughts of others/A laudable and worthy goal.”
I forgot how much I adore Eugene Onegin.
Enjoying mint lavendar tea at cafe pedlar in cobble hill. I think this is my favorite neighborhood in Bklyn.
Wanting to have a John Hughes marathon.
RT @bookbench Looking for the perfect book of aphorisms to tuck into your back pocket? http://bit.ly/4c4aQK
RT @FSG_Books Novel Advice: The Best Cafés for Writing via Michael Idov and Grub Street. http://bit.ly/3glrUs
I’m sure that there was a better book published in 2005 than Twilight. I’m quite disturbed at the moment. http://bit.ly/XLAQ4
Watched Blonde Venus at BAM. Disapponted in Marlene Dietrich, but not by the way light plays on her bone structure.
Bitten by creepy looking mosquito while waiting for Robyn outside of Blue Marble. Mosquitos are the bane of my existence this summer.
All I want to do is read. Sadly, my body really wants me to sleep.
And excited for my friend’s new experiment: Reading In Bars With Boys: http://ribwb.wordpress.com/
Off to Park Slope for Vietnamese sandwiches and Rach-time.
Reading Elif Batuman’s adventures with Russian novels at 9th Street Espresso
Drunk bowling at Gutter with @noneck
July 2009
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Perfect end to the summer: starting next monday, BAM is showing 17 Cary Grant films http://tinyurl.com/l7xoej
Watching Foxes, the early Jodie Foster movie, on VHS.
Of course he’s a Bolano fan! RT @chapmanchapman Robert Pattinson’s got good taste: seen w/ @FSG_Books’ 2666 http://tr.im/uEj8
Wrong on so many levels http://bit.ly/R0DO5
My roommate bought me a present and he didn’t even know it was my birthday. Serendipity!
RT @FSG_Books The coffeeshop of horrors: Michael Idov satirizes a rich couple who open a hip café on the LES. http://bit.ly/z8qsG
It’s not even 10 o’clock and I’ve already gotten some really sweet and sincere happy birthdays.They’re making my year.
Enjoying summer rain and thunder. I’m up for anything that makes a NY summer this mild.
At Frankies 457 in Carroll Gardens for an early birthday dinner. I think my expectations were too high, but overall it was quite tasty.