What are you reading?

[Faust]

James Wood undressing Paul Auster in a New Yorker article. Ouch.

[dontbecruel]

Ravelstein, Saul Bellow.

I bought this the day it was published and it filled me with happiness for the few hours it lasted. A gorgeous book. Have you read Humboldt's Gift? That's another affectionate portrait, laced with loneliness, but on a grander scale appropriate to middle rather than old age. I think it's his best.

[jogu]

how to survive a zombie apocalypse

[Faust]

I bought this the day it was published and it filled me with happiness for the few hours it lasted. A gorgeous book. Have you read Humboldt's Gift? That's another affectionate portrait, laced with loneliness, but on a grander scale appropriate to middle rather than old age. I think it's his best.

Not yet, but I will right after this one. Bellow is my new favorite author, without a doubt.

[Fuuma]

Hmm, I still like a lot of my adolescent readings but then I haven't really reached any sort of maturity. I also read much of the classics before I got into "trashier" litterature so my perspective might be skewed.

[H-R]

Not sure if this is the appropriate thread, but I'm looking to acquaint myself with Anselm Kiefer's works over this Christmas, can anyone recommend me a book/books that would serve as a good entry point?

[todestrieb]

[MASUGNEN]

Jack Kerouac: On the Road. It's a boring trip. Alain Badiou isn't funnier. I set my hope to Bruno Schulz.

[Faust]

Jack Kerouac: On the Road. It's a boring trip. Alain Badiou isn't funnier. I set my hope to Bruno Schulz.

Get the Ed Ruscha edition. It's only $10k. A clear beatnik winner.

[galia]

Just finished reading The Burned Child by Stig Dagerman, and I loved it immensely despite my dislike for too overt psychoanalysis
it is a very dark, skelettal story of complicated love between father and son.

[rider]

sorting through...Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage. it's heavy....and Cruel Shoes, its not.

[TarHeart]

I'm reading all those books you should have read in school, a long time ago. I recently finished Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice.

[Seventh]

Not sure if this is the appropriate thread, but I'm looking to acquaint myself with Anselm Kiefer's works over this Christmas, can anyone recommend me a book/books that would serve as a good entry point?

This is a good overview of his work with decent pictures. Of course his works really need to be experienced in person.

Polke is way, way better/more fun/dangerous/slippery (in my opinion).

[Seventh]

Corsair - Is the Redon book published/translated in English?

[Faust]

I'm reading all those books you should have read in school, a long time ago. I recently finished Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, now I'm reading Pride and Prejudice.

It's never too late!