December 2009
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Anticipated Stranger,
the bruise will stop by later. For now, pain pauses in its round, notes the time of day, the patient’s temperature, leaves a memo for the surrogate: what the hell did you think you were doing? I mean … Oh well, less said the better, they all say. I’ll post this at the desk.
God will find the pattern and break it.
-John Ashbery
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold -William Carlos Williams
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Terrorist update →
My folks’ friend Gary makes videos like I blog, posting his work on youtube. The link above will take you to a 90-second video of Oscar and my dad on one of Oscar’s first trips to the ocean. COMPELLING STUFF! Thanks, Gary!
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NPR'S Best Books of 2009 →
Oh, wonderful! Nerds rejoice!
I particularly like the teaser NPR offers for mystery readers:
“Holiday season have you feeling a touch homicidal? Critic Maureen Corrigan offers a selection of sleuth stories and hard-boiled whodunits to satisfy all your deepest literary desires.”
sarahspy:
Listed by genres, including: best debut fiction, book club picks, memoirs, under-the-radar...
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Sylvia Plath and her Daddy
Sylvia Plath’s father, Otto Plath, was a committed academic of some renown and was significantly older than Plath’s mother. His personality was not so inclined to fatherhood, and he was a largely absent and distant father. For example, when her father came home from work in the evening, Sylvia and her younger brother were often sent upstairs to play — away from the room in which...
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FULL FATHOM FIVE
Old man, you surface seldom.
Then you come in with the...
– Sylvia Plath
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Who do you love? →
This website “maps” the authors you are most likely to enjoy based on the name of the author you provide. I’m not sure this really works, but it certainly inspires me to bulk up my to-read piles.
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