What are you reading?

[Servo2000]

It's especially amusing reading the stories being in Providence - I'm going to have to wander about and find some of the places mentioned when I have some free time.

[electric_alyce]

Right now, the Oslo Fashion Week magazine. Bookwise I'm reading THUD! by Terry Pratchett

[zamb]

the Crusades, by Jonathan Riley Smith

[AKA*NYC]

It's especially amusing reading the stories being in Providence - I'm going to have to wander about and find some of the places mentioned when I have some free time.

iirc his childhood home is now gone but there is another address where he lived briefly that remains intact. in his fiction lovecraft was never very specific about locations. most of his stories were set in fictitious locales that were based on providence and its environs. but there was a brief, dark period in his life where he moved to brooklyn that inspired the wonderfully xenophobic short story "the horror at red hook." i can go on and on about hpl but in the last word his fiction is sort of a gateway drug for his letters which are a treat in and of themselves and outrank the short stories from a strictly critical standpoint.

[skecr8r_l8r]

I am not surprised to see Lovecraft being mentioned here in the drone-ninja safe haven.

(I love him too. Mountains of Madness... !!)

[mamaboy]

i fell in love with lovecraft after houllebecq "against the world,against the life"....

[destroyed]

huh. i just took out a Lovecraft book from the library this week.

reading some Bolano finally. and i am just discovering Snodgrass' poetry.

[kunk75]

decline of the west. again.

[Test]

World War Z. Entertaining as hell.

[Magician]

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/02/20/haruki_murakami/

Brief essay by Murakami re: current conflict in Gaza. Poetic and sad.

[AKA*NYC]

decline of the west. again.

really?! i read it two summers ago. have you read the two "sequels" the hour of decision and man and technics? both are brief summations of his political philosophy and no less essential than decline imo not to mention much easier to read.

[Faust]

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2...ruki_murakami/

Brief essay by Murakami re: current conflict in Gaza. Poetic and sad.

Weird, just read that yesterday. Didn't know it would show up here, since it was published in Haaretz.

[Magician]

Weird, just read that yesterday. Didn't know it would show up here, since it was published in Haaretz.

Hah, should have tried to read it in Hebrew to brush up. I was pretty impressed with the nuanced take on the situation given the vitriol on all sides (I guess that was kind of the point).

Somewhat related anyone know of good Israeli shopping? I hear you can get badass artisanal shearling.

[Faust]

No designer shopping to speak of in Israel. Not sure about other goods - never heard of people praising shearling there. Turkey on the other hand...

[Real Real]

Some review about Sontag that talks about camp in the most recent London Review of Books (Faust?)