Month: January 2009
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holiday reading, past and present
Chuck Klosterman: Downtown Owl: A Novel. Also sometimes known ’round these parts as “The Metropolitan Urban Area of Nocturnal Birds.” The past two books I’ve read dealt with blizzards. And then the next, a thunderstorm: Max Frisch: Man in the Holocene, which was sad, haunting and filled with geology. Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings I always feel…
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File Under: Oddly Satisfying
I know it’s weird and obsessive, but if I’m flipping through a magazine and there’s a photo of a bookshelf, or if I’m watching television and one is in the background during an interview, I’m going to stop paying attention to everything else in order to read the spines of the books. I can’t help…