January 16, 2009
Well, it looks like we got ourselves a reader.
List of books purchased in this last week:
- Marks and Meaning, version zero by Dave Gray
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- This Is Not the Way We Came In by Daryl Scroggins
- Martha and Hanwell by Zadie Smith
- Mosefolket by Cooper Esteban
What’s on your queue?
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Re-started Infinite Jest sometime last month. I’m averaging about 10 pages a night…so in three months I’ll start thinking about what’s next.
I reread the opening and title story to Victoria Redel’s Where the Road Bottoms Out for the first time in maybe a dozen years and was perhaps even more impressed by it than I had been initially (not to say I wasn’t initially impressed). It’s a beautiful story and the language has held up remarkably.
This is Not the Way We Came In (Loving it all up)
God help me, The Snowball Warren Buffet’s Bio (for business book club)
And some book on branding I don’t remember the title of.
Oh, and NY Tyrant.
Got This is not the way we came in while preparing to leave New York, so haven’t had a chance to get into it yet. Tonight, I woke up at midnight. I think I will be reading through the jetlag blues.
I’m just finishing up Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, and just returned from the library with Helen Simpson’s Constitutional, Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More Than You and Margarete Buber-Neumann’s auto-biographical account of life in a Soviet gulag, then Nazi concentration camp Under Two Dictators. I’ve not totally decided what order though.
My toddler and I are enjoying Emily Gravett’s Orange, pear, apple, bear and Wolves very much as well.
Daniel Fuchs 1930′s classic Williamsburg Trilogy
The Easy Chain–Evan Dara
The Tattooed Girl–Joyce Carol Oates
Next in line: THIS IS NOT THE WAY WE CAME IN–Daryl Scroggins
and EVER by Blake Butler
How lovely to see Daryl’s book show up here more than once! Beautiful.
And Andrew is going to read my poems? I am honored.
I’m reading George Oppen’s New Collected Poems and Dickens’s Hard Times and am about to start Mistress in the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. Next up after Dickens is Trollope’s A Small House in Allington.
I got Daryl’s book yesterday and read (reread actually) the opening story in the Tom Thumb parking lot. many years ago, when Gordon was still at Knopf, he wanted to publish a collection of Daryl’s stories. I got the feeling yesterday that this is the book he would have published. it is beautiful, Daryl. you should be proud.
Thank you so much, Deron. I’m filled with pride at the thought that you like something–anything–I have written. And thanks to all of you who have given me the benefit of the doubt and bought a copy of this new book. I sure hope you all find something in it you like. I’m the luckiest of lads to have such friends and to know such people.
Were you drunk in the parking lot? That’s a Raymond Carver short story right there.
Ok, so I have had this whole Clusterflock Book Club idea, haven’t gotten it together to post about it yet, so I’ll float the idea. It was when you originally played Santa with Daryl’s book. And I thought, hey, I’ll post the notion of a Clusterflock Book Club, where we all get a couple of weeks to read a book or whatever, and I or whoever will chair the post and we’ll use the comment section to do the book club meeting bit. Or maybe we could organise a skype video conference for whoever’s interested. I’ve never even been at a book club but I think I dig the drill. I overheard one happening in June 2007 in a bookstore in Aix en Provence, I think I get it. People read book, sit around talking about book. Somebody says, Sheila, you have been remarkably quiet. What did you think when Anna threw herself under the train?… etc.
So my idea is to start with Daryl’s book. Give people some time to buy and read, set a date, and away we go. What do you think?
I think I’ve got to write this comment as a post. Meanwhile, I will press “Submit Comment” and see what happens.
Lucy! Yes! Please get on this and make it public. And yes, it should be Daryl’s book.
(And no, I’m not drunk nor was I
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Ok, give me a minute or a couple of days or something. I am a jetlagged person.
I started reading A Short History of Progress on the way to the airport, and then I watched the miniseries/pilot of the modern Battlestar Galactica on the plane. These two things go together very well, in a megadepressing sort of way.
Kathryn (Ravenna publisher) says that despite what Amazon’s listing may say Daryl’s book is available now–via Ravenna’s website (this route is best for the press–provides more money to put toward the next publication), via your local bookstore, even (I think) via Amazon.
And Ravenna’s shipper ships real fast. This Is Not the Way We Came In should be in my hands Monday.