May 2010
15 posts
save the new york public library. →
i have been a library patron since i was four years old when my mother signed me up for my first library card. rita mae brown wrote, “when i got my library card, that was when my life began.” this was true for me, and based on how passionate the blogging community is about their books, it is obvious that this is not a precious, unique snowflake experience—we all grew up this way,...
“we have raccoons sometimes in our chimney,” explains simone.
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– lorrie moore, birds of america. i read this book in madrid. what is it about lorrie moore? she has this uncanny ability to distill the subtlest human feeling into sentence form.
100 years later, mark twain autobiography to be... →
here’s hoping this is nice and juicy.
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headed to the land of cervantes.
i am off to madrid and barcelona for ten days. very much looking forward to doing a hemingway bar crawl in madrid. number of books packed? 8. in my defense this includes tour guides and maps.
books about running that are worth reading.
pre: well-written biography about steve prefontaine’s childhood, collegiate career and olympic pursuits.
once a runner: the quintessential book about the loneliness of the long distance runner. john l. parker nails the religiosity of training.
the runner’s literary companion: a very thorough collection of poems and stories written about running over the years.
running with the...
“one day, out of the blue, i wanted to write a novel. and one day, out of the...”
– haruki murakami, what i talk about when i talk about running.
i had high expectations for this one. i have been a runner for thirteen years and given my murakami obsession, figured it would provide an extra inspirational push for training. not so much.
“what was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being,...”
– philip roth, american pastoral.
