January 2012
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“I remember when I was a child at Coolin or Sagle or Talache, walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle. I remember kneeling by a creek that spilled and pooled among rocks and among fallen trees with the unspeakably tender growth of small trees already sprouting from their backs,...
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Dreamt last night that I was sitting around in a dim room drinking wine with a few friends and Joan Didion, old Joan Didion. She was telling us in a hushed voice about her husband and her, back in the 1950s and early 1960s, registering in hotels under fake names and taking off their wedding rings when they would make love. I’m a lot more grossed out by this now than I was in the dream.
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“Bitchez love gold.” - E.J.
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The best books I read in 2011, listed...
Another list and y’all can just suck my butt.
1. The Human Stain by Phillip Roth
2. What Hetty Did by J.L. Carr
3. Comet In Moominland by Tove Jansson
4. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
5. The Tiger by John Vaillant
6. Moving On by Larry McMurtry
7. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
8. My Antonia by Willa Cather
9. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
10. Trust Me by John...
