Cricket, we are having our visiting writers at NU and it made me think of our olden timez! Also, I will be sailing through southern Vermont in lower-mid-late July and wondering whether we can touch ponies together...
OMG I was talking to our faculty yesterday about Tim D because he was at UNLV, back in the day, right? Several people were remembering our olden days and I was telling a story about Tim being a surprise favorite of Mary Kinzie--this is SO WEIRD because I hadn't thought about Tim Dekin for at least a half-dozen years. (and PS I love his poetry, and just saw that he passed in 2001...) Sorry, Chris, to do this on your page, but WOW
I have a complete set of the "Elpenor" books Kinzie edited for U of Chi Press--Dekin, DiPiero, Shapiro, Kenneth Fields--so plain in production and so good on the page. I'm going to bring them to you.
I'm bringing Alice Munro's "Hateship, Friendship..." One of my all-time favorite writers; what a loss yesterday. Also reading Colm Toibin's latest novel.
I’m also reading James by Percival Everett. I have been reading his work recently: The Trees, Erasure and this. All contain have racial themes but each one of them has something completely unique from any other book.
Love the idea of the Percival Everett, but can I also steer you to the person who first broke and reimagined Huck Finn, John Keene, who, in "Counternarratives", shows Jim wandering in Chicago and bumps into Huck, being a proto-frat-boy, clerking at his wife Becky's dad's lawfirm. Called "Rivers": https://longreads.com/2015/05/15/john-keenes-rivers-a-speculative-huck-finn-inspired-short-story/
Oh, and I'm reading and loving Kirstin Valdez Quade's gorgeous novel "The Five Wounds", and the poet Airea D Matthew's collection of poetry, "Bread and Circus"....
I am reading The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan
Cricket, we are having our visiting writers at NU and it made me think of our olden timez! Also, I will be sailing through southern Vermont in lower-mid-late July and wondering whether we can touch ponies together...
OMG- yes yes a thousand times Yes!
How great this is!
Do you remember Timothy Dekin living with me senior year????
My contribution to the Visiting Writers program.... :-)
OMG I was talking to our faculty yesterday about Tim D because he was at UNLV, back in the day, right? Several people were remembering our olden days and I was telling a story about Tim being a surprise favorite of Mary Kinzie--this is SO WEIRD because I hadn't thought about Tim Dekin for at least a half-dozen years. (and PS I love his poetry, and just saw that he passed in 2001...) Sorry, Chris, to do this on your page, but WOW
I have a complete set of the "Elpenor" books Kinzie edited for U of Chi Press--Dekin, DiPiero, Shapiro, Kenneth Fields--so plain in production and so good on the page. I'm going to bring them to you.
Saul Bellow by Zachary Leader.
I'm bringing Alice Munro's "Hateship, Friendship..." One of my all-time favorite writers; what a loss yesterday. Also reading Colm Toibin's latest novel.
I love that Munro book so much. I think the title story in “Hateship” is my favorite short story… ever? I just can’t believe how good it is
The Paris Novel - Ruth Reichl
I’m also reading James by Percival Everett. I have been reading his work recently: The Trees, Erasure and this. All contain have racial themes but each one of them has something completely unique from any other book.
Lots of people reading literary biographies tonight. I love it!
I just ordered Paul Auster's lit bio of Stephen Crane, "Burning Boy". Paul Auster, RIP
I’m reading Shoal Water, by Kip Robinson Greenthal. Thanks for the lovely event!
I’m reading Shoal Water, by Kip Robinson Greenthal. Thanks for the lovely event!
-Amy Crawford
Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl.
The Story of English by Robert Crum, William Cran and Robert MacNeil
Love the idea of the Percival Everett, but can I also steer you to the person who first broke and reimagined Huck Finn, John Keene, who, in "Counternarratives", shows Jim wandering in Chicago and bumps into Huck, being a proto-frat-boy, clerking at his wife Becky's dad's lawfirm. Called "Rivers": https://longreads.com/2015/05/15/john-keenes-rivers-a-speculative-huck-finn-inspired-short-story/
Oh, and I'm reading and loving Kirstin Valdez Quade's gorgeous novel "The Five Wounds", and the poet Airea D Matthew's collection of poetry, "Bread and Circus"....