Read. by Manuel Sola-Morales.
as recommended by Iwamoto.
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Saturday, February 20, 2010
In Which Ernest Hemingway Is The Finest Quivering Sensitive of Our Time
link to excerpt from Intellectuals.
Hemingway sounds like a fantastic brute. I love hearing about selfish brilliants, as long as they don't touch my life.
Hemingway sounds like a fantastic brute. I love hearing about selfish brilliants, as long as they don't touch my life.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Today: Picture books from 1810 to 1950
A total of six hundred and fifty Dutch picture books, dating to the period 1810–1950, are brought together in this collection, which runs the gamut from Robinson Crusoe to Tielse Flipje (a cartoon mascot on ‘De Betuwe’ jam pot labels) and from old nursery rhymes to fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm: there is something for everyone in the collection.
from the Memory of the Netherlands.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Author: Beryl Markham
Note to self.
Self, go to library and check out copy of West With The Night. Must read more of this:
by Beryl Markham from West With The Night
Self, go to library and check out copy of West With The Night. Must read more of this:
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep—leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.
by Beryl Markham from West With The Night
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Book: Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Flesh and Blood is about the importance of people's actions on others and how their convinced belief of unimportance fucks it all up; or in other words, "Damn you Michael Cunningham for making me cry all fucking day."
Friday, March 6, 2009
Book: Lolita
Nabokov makes me despair that I can ever write anything as beautiful as a single sentence of his.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
To Read: Atmospheric Disturbances, by Rivka Galchen
Review
Early in Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, the narrator, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, explains the Doppler effect and thereby introduces the novel's extended metaphor. Leo laments that trying to make sense of his suddenly uneven life is "like trying to determine the actual frequency of an object moving away from me at an unknown speed and in an unknown direction, and not knowing whether it in fact was me or the object doing the moving."
The object in question is Leo's wife, Rema, a vaguely mysterious Argentinean woman more than a few years his junior. At the start of the novel, Leo is convinced that Rema has been replaced with a "simulacrum," — a woman who very much resembles Rema physically (she even stands the same way, with her hips tilting slightly inward) and temperamentally, but seems to be just a bit off. Ever the calm, reserved psychiatrist, Leo quietly accepts this simulacrum's arrival, but internally, he is baffled and ungrounded — for once, he cannot reason any deductions from the observable facts. Where is the real Rema? Was she abducted, or did she leave willingly? Is this permanent, or temporary? Instead of confronting the problem head-on, Leo follows a series of bizarre clues that amount to an investigation of the inner workings of the Royal Academy of Meteorology, and specifically one of its researchers: Tzvi Gal-Chen. This investigation, he presumes, will lead him to Rema. The resulting story develops into a beautiful meditation on the nature of observation and perception.
Leo's quest to understand the language and ideas of meteorology stands as a complex, thought-provoking metaphor for his quest to understand the course of his relationship with Rema. Gal-Chen's research, it turns out, centers on the one fundamental problem with meteorology: accurately describing present conditions is exceedingly difficult, making future forecasts almost impossible. Mirroring that, Galchen — the author — suggests that interpersonal relationships are equally challenging to describe and thus predict. And, considering the stylistic, intellectual, and empathetic authority with which she writes, it's very hard to disagree with her.
- Tom Roberge
Early in Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, the narrator, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, explains the Doppler effect and thereby introduces the novel's extended metaphor. Leo laments that trying to make sense of his suddenly uneven life is "like trying to determine the actual frequency of an object moving away from me at an unknown speed and in an unknown direction, and not knowing whether it in fact was me or the object doing the moving."
The object in question is Leo's wife, Rema, a vaguely mysterious Argentinean woman more than a few years his junior. At the start of the novel, Leo is convinced that Rema has been replaced with a "simulacrum," — a woman who very much resembles Rema physically (she even stands the same way, with her hips tilting slightly inward) and temperamentally, but seems to be just a bit off. Ever the calm, reserved psychiatrist, Leo quietly accepts this simulacrum's arrival, but internally, he is baffled and ungrounded — for once, he cannot reason any deductions from the observable facts. Where is the real Rema? Was she abducted, or did she leave willingly? Is this permanent, or temporary? Instead of confronting the problem head-on, Leo follows a series of bizarre clues that amount to an investigation of the inner workings of the Royal Academy of Meteorology, and specifically one of its researchers: Tzvi Gal-Chen. This investigation, he presumes, will lead him to Rema. The resulting story develops into a beautiful meditation on the nature of observation and perception.
Leo's quest to understand the language and ideas of meteorology stands as a complex, thought-provoking metaphor for his quest to understand the course of his relationship with Rema. Gal-Chen's research, it turns out, centers on the one fundamental problem with meteorology: accurately describing present conditions is exceedingly difficult, making future forecasts almost impossible. Mirroring that, Galchen — the author — suggests that interpersonal relationships are equally challenging to describe and thus predict. And, considering the stylistic, intellectual, and empathetic authority with which she writes, it's very hard to disagree with her.
- Tom Roberge
Sunday, September 16, 2007
hand job
Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty of today's most talented typographers who draw by hand.Author: Michael Perry
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