There’s dark and then there’s dark: this is the latter. Damn.
(Seriously: if you are having a rough week, go ahead and skip this.)
There’s dark and then there’s dark: this is the latter. Damn.
(Seriously: if you are having a rough week, go ahead and skip this.)
Made this one to for a Twitter thread, but obviously it’s for @tiffehr really. 😎
With just the books on my side table, I’m on track to blow right past my yearly average (24) before the end of October (I’m at 23 now), so that’s kind of fun. (:
My copy of Hair Story is, section-by-section, gaining underlines and marginalia at what some people might consider an alarming rate. But it’s so full of (a) things I didn’t know and (b) things I’ve said about my own hair that I can’t really help it. It’s definitely going to end up on my shelves as reference material.
Oh, on my side table in addition to Hair Story:
Man, weeping by Sandra Newman
I think “men crying demonstratively at every turn” will be the name of my next anthology.
Off the Books by Jacqui Shine, Lapham’s Quarterly
What a fantastic pair of sentences. I’m still chuckling (and applauding Ms Shine).
This is the first time I’ve ever wished I hadn’t borrowed a book from the library but instead bought it. I want to write in the margins and underline turns of phrase every 3 pages and not feel bad about resting a cup of tea on the cover and staining it and making it mine. Joan Didion: so good; damn.
The last 3 months have been the busiest all year. And the last 2 weeks the busiest of those months. I don’t know about y'all, but after a couple of days, my ability to drop into the zone begins to deteriorate rapidly. I don’t have the option of easing off the accelerator for a couple more days, though, so I’ve had to find a way to keep myself from slacking.
Surprising no one: that way is music!
In particular!
I start any one of these and within a minute or two, I have no trouble focusing on bugs, design updates, and javascript challenges.
In Conversation: Chris Rock by Frank Rich
Obviously the above isn’t the only topic of conversation, it meanders a little, but that last sentence is everything.
Books in progress:
Movies/tv recently watched (& enjoyed!):
Recent milestones:
Och. Et tu, Mary? (Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That’s Victor describing to Walton his cousin Elizabeth (with whom he was raised and who his mother [a woman plucked from destitution by his father just after her father died] wants him to marry).
Blah blah of its time; it still rankles. A favourite animal, indeed.
Judy Malloy’s seat at the (database) table: A feminist reception history of early hypertext literature by Kathi Inman Berens (via Alexis Madrigal)
“…to praise a single mom with a Bachelor’s degree over a young male novelist with a print novel and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.”
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Zadie Smith, “What to Read This Summer” in O Magazine.
Word!