This is what we’re reading. Including you.
So, I'm temping again, and along with all of the dubious joys of temping comes the legitimately joy-inducing ability to listen to headphones for an entire shift, day after day. There are only so many times in one day I can listen to Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning*, so I was off to …
How excited was I when I saw the new Swivel was on the shelves at newsstands in Seattle? Pretty excited. I reviewed the first issue for February's Book Rate, so I will just add that the second issue is as good, as smart, and as entertaining as the first. It's based here in Seattle, and …
Metropolis - Elizabeth Gaffney Cast of Shadows - Kevin Guilfoyle Torture and Truth - Mark Danner The Stone Fields - Courtney Angela Brkic God Lives in St. Petersburg - Tom Bissell Tropic of Night - Michael Gruber 100% Evil - Nicholas Blechman & Christoph Niemann Review of Deborah Lipstadt's History on Trial by Charles Taylor …
Every time I visit a newsstand in Seattle, it seems like I find five new-to-me publications I HAVE to read. Last night was no exception; while at the Bulldog News in the U District I picked up Radical Teacher, a triennial "socialist, feminist, and anti-racist" teaching journal put out by the nonprofit Cambridge, MA Center …
I've been reading and teaching poetry for the past three weeks. Kenneth Rexroth's 100 Poems From The Chinese has just about the most kickass translations of Tu Fu anywhere. After you start reading those poems, you start living them. No kidding. I was driving along listening to the NPR fund drive and drinking a tall …
Chris's invitation to beginnings coincides with my obsession with this one. My husband introduced me to this first paragraph and I have to admit that when I first read it my eyes glazed over the surface like a marble on linoleum. As I have inched my way through the book and look back on those …
First a nod to Chris because the Garden State soundtrack has become the music that works its way to the top of the queue several times a day. It's in rotation with Green Day's American Idiot, an album I hadn't listened to too much until the Rolling Stone cover story. But this is about what …
Why does it have to be fiction? Poetry:Ginsburg's Howl"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed bymadness, starving hysterical naked," Whitman's Leaves of Grass"I celebrate myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Sharon Olds's Satan Says(the whole first poem kicks ass) Memoir:Maya Angelou's I …
Not much; I'm packing to go to Quebec. But in the mean time (the mean time is a mean time and we know it) I've been thinking about novels with a great first page (or two). I had to think about this recently for a workshop I was leading. I made up an absolutely incomplete, …
I have all this great stuff sitting around my apartment to read. I am halfway through the Rothko bio that I have been picking up and putting down for weeks. I have a whole stack of books (and one video) about Rothko that I got from the library. I have another stack of magazines, including …
