I can't tell if I'd like to read this or if I'd just like to look at it. Color me intrigued.
What I'm Reading
Arthur Phillips: The Song Is You: A Novel
Because if Kate Christensen says it "zings" and is "impossible to put down" & Kakutani deemed it "maladroit", "ridiculous" and "flawed", it is a book I definitely want to read.Eduardo Galeano: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Sounds utterly fascinating. We shall see.The Shadow of Kilimanjaro
The book that started the deep dive into epic journey literature...
LA Times Festival of Books Coverage
- LATFOB Panel - Fiction: Novel Lives
- LATFOB Panel - Agents
- LATFOB - A Sweat Drenched Retrospective
- LATFOB Panel - Fiction: Serious Prose
- LATFOB Panel - Hearing alternative voices
- LA Times Festival of Books - Author Interviews
- LA Times Festival of Books - Man on the Street Interviews - Part I
- LATFOB Panel - Fiction: Grace Under Pressure
- LATFOB Panel - Women of Slipstream
- LA Times Book Fest - Calm Before the Coverage Storm
- LA Times Festival of Books - Day One
- LA Times Book Prize Winners
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Life in LA Blogs
Short Story Month
Less Spasmodic Poetry Appreciation Week
- Finally, at the Heart of It All - Does Poetry Matter?
- Allen Ginsberg's Song
- Adrienne Crew's Morning Poetry Ritual
- Billy Collins - Introduction to Poetry
- Matthew Tiffany's Poetry for Dummies - With a Powerful Twist
- A Different Kind of Poetry
- Escapegrace Finds A Way Back In...To Poetry
- Ai's Salome
- Lauren Cerand's Cosmic Poetry Connection
- Down & Dirty Poetry Appreciation (Or, please let's not get precious)
April is National Poetry Month
- April 1: Diagnosis by Terence Winch
- April 2: What I Remember the Writers Telling Me When I Was Young by William Meredith
- April 3: Knowing All Ways, Including the Transposition of the Continents by Charles Olson
- April 4: i shall imagine life... by e.e. cummings
- April 5: Carson McCullers by Charles Bukowski
- April 6: Ditty of First Desire by Federico García Lorca
- April 7: As It Was Written by Anne Sexton
- April 8: Work by Andrei Codrescu
- April 9: The Accomplice by David Clewell
- April 10: By Accident by Amit Majmudar
- April 11: Photography by Nikki Giovanni
- April 12: Poetry Is the Art of Not Succeeding by Joe Salerno
- April 13: Supermodel by David Breskin
- April 14: Supermodel (II) by David Breskin
- April 15: Supermodel (III) by David Breskin
- April 16: Between What I See and What I Say... by Octavio Paz
- April 17: Quarantine by Eavan Boland
- April 18: Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
- April 19: Mr. Cogito's Soul by Zbigniew Herbert
- April 20: A Primer of the Daily Round by Howard Nemerov
- April 21: At the Same Time by Marianne Boruch
- April 22: Marginalia by Billy Collins
- April 23: A Performance at Hog Theater by Ruseell Edson
- April 24: Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- April 25: To be of use by Marge Piercy
- April 26: Copyright Renewal Under the Texaco Star by Jeffery Dye
Books Read in 2008...
Lawrence Osborne: The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World
Jay Mcinerney: A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (Vintage)
The Paris Review: The Paris Review Interviews, III (Paris Review Interviews)
Julia Flynn Siler: The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
Carlo Emilio Gadda: That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (New York Review Books Classics)
Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Felicia Sullivan: The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life
William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Paul Hawken: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Arden: It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book
Elin Mccoy: The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste
Michael Broadbent: Michael Broadbent's Pocket Vintage Wine Companion
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