Monthly Archives: August 2007

A literary light is extinguished. If you haven’t read Grace Paley, I recommend starting with Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. One of the best collection of short stories in the last half of the 20th century.

Darn, I used a new template and lost all my sidebars, including all of my reading accomplishments for this year. Damn you, Blogger!

The 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is September 5. (I hope to attend a reading at Vesuvio’s, one of the old Beat hangouts in San Francisco.) Here’s an interesting article from the UK Guardian. (And an amazingly … Continue reading →

I’ve joined the Outmoded Authors blogspot, set up by the wonderful Imani. This is exciting! In July, I did a similar challenge, trying to read Neglected Authors (those who are excellent and should be read but for some reason do … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’ve taken a new job. The deafening silence of this blog has been due to transitioning. I don’t remember other job changes feeling this difficult, but I’m sure much of the overwhelmingly blecch feeling is because … Continue reading →