February 2012
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Books I Love (an incomplete list) →
I read a lot. Friends frequently ask me for book recommendations. So I’ve started pinning the covers of books I love to a board. My reading taste is catholic (lower case C); I like a lot of different kinds of books, as long as those books work on their terms. I will admit that I am particularly partial to first person narrators, to voice-driven fiction, to irony, and to great sentences. (To...
“Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer that...”
– Alain Robbe-Grillet in the Paris Review (via fsgbooks)
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My February Poem
The poem I’ll be reading every day this month: “Meditation at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass:
Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass
All the new thinking is about loss.
In this it resembles all the old thinking.
The idea, for example, that each particular erases
the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-
faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk
of that black...