Johnson, B.S. The Unfortunates. 1969. New York: New Directions, 2007. This is one of my favorite books. I already have a copy, but just received a desk copy from the publisher (New Directions is great!) because I’ll be using it in one of my classes this fall. It is more of an art object thanContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates”
Category Archives: Literature
Gabriel García Márquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera
I just finished reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera. What a fascinating, intense, perplexing book! It is one of the most profound books I’ve ever read in that much of what it says about love is spot-on, and for that reason it is a treasure, but at the same time, IContinue reading “Gabriel García Márquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera”
Book Acquired Recently: Gabriel García Márquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera
Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. 1988. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Vintage, 2003. A good friend of mine has recommended this book to me numerous times, and finally insisted that I must read it NOW, so I went and picked it up. I’ve previously read Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of SolitudeContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: Gabriel García Márquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera”
Home by Toni Morrison
I just finished reading Toni Morrison’s new novel, Home. It is not her best book, but is still a beautiful achievement. It exemplifies the smooth, vivid prose which evokes scenes clearly in readers’ minds that makes her one of my favorite authors. Home is not as good as her two finest works, Beloved and SongContinue reading “Home by Toni Morrison”
Books Acquired Recently
Butler, Octavia E. Lilith’s Brood. New York: Grand Central, 1989. Butler’s Kindred is one of my favorite books, but I’ve never read any of her science fiction (SF) novels. This book, along with Card’s, is for an independent study I’m doing with a student this summer. Card, Orson Scott, ed. Masterpieces: The Best Science FictionContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Why I Care About Sports
This post is for all you haters out there (you know who you are!) who mock otherwise-intelligent people like me for being sports fans. My colleagues in academia are often baffled when they find out that I follow sports. Part of this surprise is a form of classism: sports fandom is seen as blue collar,Continue reading “Why I Care About Sports”
Book Acquired Recently: James Tiptree, Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Tiptree, James Jr. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. San Francisco: Tachyon, 2004. Bought at amazon.com I read one of Tiptree’s short stories, “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” about a year ago and loved it, and since then I’ve been looking for her (James Tiptree, Jr. is a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon) books in bookstores. SaltContinue reading “Book Acquired Recently: James Tiptree, Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever”
New Bookends
Here is a pair of new bookends that I bought at a local vintage shop this past Friday. I love their languid elegance. The book being held up by the top bookend is Samuel R. Delany’s new novel, Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, which I am super-excited to read. I read anContinue reading “New Bookends”
Blogging Again.
Welcome to my new blog! I’ve made several previous attempts at blogging that have been derailed for various reasons. The most recent, and most successful, which died due to technical difficulties, is here: http://www.anewyorkerinexile.blogspot.com/. But I’m paying for this one, and one would hope that this factor will give me extra motivation. This summer myContinue reading “Blogging Again.”
Daniel Shank Cruz 