The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace : Rolling Stone This is a great piece on David Foster Wallace. It brings to light many aspects of his life I was unaware of, and there are great interview snippets I hadn’t read before (and I’ve read pretty much everything I could find on …
Book Publisher Suspends New Acquisitions – NYTimes.com The publishing biz is in major trouble. I think the days of ‘big publishing’ by corporate media behemoths are coming to an end.
Hey Sean, we’re going to go in here and see if we can find somebody who wants to adopt you as a pet. That was me today, as we walked into Petsmart for some cat fud.
Or is it? As mentioned in an earlier post, I recently read David Markson’s The Last Novel, and I was deeply impressed. Markson has written a series (is ‘series’ the right word? I don’t know) of—oh, let’s just call them novels—a series of novels that are more collections of literary trivia and anecdotes with the …
The wind off the harbor makes the 30-degree ambient temperature feel like 22 degrees, according to Weather.com. To us, out for our morning walk and not having a proper thermometer, it just felt shockingly cold. It’s only November, after all. Not yet Thanksgiving, even. The wisteria went from green to brown and leafless over night. …
I got an e-mail from a new Navy husband today: My wife recently joined the Navy and is currently going to A-School. She wants me to move with her somewhere when she graduates but of course does not know where that somewhere is yet. What is there really for a navy husband to do? Are …
I have a new post up at Milspouse.com/blog. It’s another in my series on 2010: Norfolk Two. Homesteading.
There’s something I find oddly fascinating, yet scary, about eye surgery. The whole time I was reading this, my internal monologue was screaming, But it’s his eye! navalgazing » Medical Oddity
The sound of the bottles in the Samuel Adams Winter Classics collection clinking together in the back seat on the way home from the package store.
[Note: My son Sean is the genius behind the title of this post. He thought my simple title of 'Reading' was lame and boring, apparently.] Well, I’ve gotten a little bit behind in my book reviewing, here. Since September, I’ve read Neal Stephenson’s Anathem—which is the ass-kickingest piece of science fiction I’ve read since William …
