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I am officially out of the loop. The NY Times has started a book club of sorts, in their reading room blog. It launched earlier in October, and the gang has been reading Tolstoy's War and Peace with comments from Senator Gary Hart and moderated by NYT Book Review editor...
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My uber-hip coworker turned me onto the new Jen Bekman project of 20x200 and I immediately ordered a print when I found one that I connected with. Each week they release a photo and another work into the wild that sell like hotcakes. You can order the smallest size for...
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The Year of Yes
by lz in Reading Archive on 31Oct2007
Sadly, this was one of the better books I picked up at the book swap a few months ago. The swap was chaotic-- people lingering over category tables (fiction, history, philosophy, etc.) and pouncing on the new additions as soon as the staff dropped them off. I swapped a bag...
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I was invited to fast for Karva Chauth with a coworker whose mother-in-law adheres to the tradition. Last night, I geared up for the main event by having a light supper of vegetable soup, and since then, not a drop of liquid or food has passed my lips. Karva Chauth...
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This Dutch cathedral was built over 700 years ago, between 1267 and 1280. It's now received a new lease on life, reincarnated as a gorgeous new bookstore. The upper floors of the bookstore give you a closer look at the frescoes on the ceiling. Rejoice and let the book-worship...
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Orwell leads us deep into the cellars, basements, homeless shelters ("spikes") of his Paris and London, shoving us down into his misery of hunger, near slavery as a plongeur (dishwasher and more, working 18 hour days of backbreaking work in a dim-lit dirty kitchen), rushing to catch the last Metro...
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The Continental Op
by lz in Reading Archive on 14Oct2007
On a recent Dashiell Hammett tour of San Francisco, the Continental Op came up as a serious recommendation, and we enjoyed the added bonus of a Whosis Kid segment to the tour. The Whosis Kid segment revolved around McAllister/Van Ness, where the Op lurked in wait to see the Whosis...
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Another kick-in-the-pants-type book (I'm reading a lot of those lately...), this all about overcoming the fear of writing by embracing rituals, speaking with your own voice despite whom it might hurt or embarrass, using fear to your advantage by letting it fuel you, Helpful courage boosters include: * read about...
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It's strange how tales that once were part of the common fabric of historical record have disappeared from today's world; namely, the story of the Essex, stove by a whale, sunk, its men scattered in whaleboats in the middle of an unfrequented patch of the Pacific, trapped for 93(ish) days...
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