Blort.
Well, my brain's fried.
The last week's been a journey of fantastic dimensions. Going back into grad school mode for four days was like getting hit with a cannonball in the chest. It was like getting blasted sideways into a completely different mode of life. A world parallel to this world. Weird.
It's not quite over yet, either, but we are winding down. The defense is officially on for February 9. I'll be buying a bus ticket soon, and getting ready to see Yoel and a few other friends again. If you are reading this please cross your fingers and silently hope that a travel-obliterating blizzard doesn't blanket the region on February 7 or 8.
In the meantime I'm salivating over the thought of all the other media I'll plug into my head once it isn't all Pynchon, all the time (and it has been: all Pynchon, all the time, for quite a long time now indeed).
In honor of the last incarnations of it, I present
Books We Wish We Were Reading: The Revenge.
• The 'Century Girl' book (I think the author has something to do with Smith mag?)
• Random Family, by Adrian Leblanc (she is a current MacArthur Fellow, right?)
• Steven Millhauser (I just read a short story by him in Tin House and it made me remember how much I liked Martin Dressler. Writing books that are basically about fanciful buildings and peoples' emotional reactions to them? Hottt)
• Time and Again (Meg says it is amazing)
• Motherless Brooklyn (seems like about time)
• Nancy Friday (taking back the Weird Feeling I got from what I now realize was her stuff, in a musty basement a very long time ago. Also as a godmother of personal media)
• Schopenhauer. Whichever one had those quotes abt art (comparing it to weeds, I think) that I was reading on that one science blog a while ago
• Open City
• The NYRB (mom got me a subscription but it's not here yet. I'm going to be so informed and middle-to-highbrow)
Yes, these last two are not books.
Books We Are Currently Reading:
• Dream Whip #14, by Bill Brown (Microcosm Publishing.) I should just get off my duff and write Bill Brown the fan letter I've been meaning to write him for years,. I was reading Dream Whip on the train today and thinking about Bill Brown and Al Burian, and how I'd happily read about the aimless travels of crackpot smart men for...well, how long you got?
I heard it might snow on Thursday.
The last week's been a journey of fantastic dimensions. Going back into grad school mode for four days was like getting hit with a cannonball in the chest. It was like getting blasted sideways into a completely different mode of life. A world parallel to this world. Weird.
It's not quite over yet, either, but we are winding down. The defense is officially on for February 9. I'll be buying a bus ticket soon, and getting ready to see Yoel and a few other friends again. If you are reading this please cross your fingers and silently hope that a travel-obliterating blizzard doesn't blanket the region on February 7 or 8.
In the meantime I'm salivating over the thought of all the other media I'll plug into my head once it isn't all Pynchon, all the time (and it has been: all Pynchon, all the time, for quite a long time now indeed).
In honor of the last incarnations of it, I present
Books We Wish We Were Reading: The Revenge.
• The 'Century Girl' book (I think the author has something to do with Smith mag?)
• Random Family, by Adrian Leblanc (she is a current MacArthur Fellow, right?)
• Steven Millhauser (I just read a short story by him in Tin House and it made me remember how much I liked Martin Dressler. Writing books that are basically about fanciful buildings and peoples' emotional reactions to them? Hottt)
• Time and Again (Meg says it is amazing)
• Motherless Brooklyn (seems like about time)
• Nancy Friday (taking back the Weird Feeling I got from what I now realize was her stuff, in a musty basement a very long time ago. Also as a godmother of personal media)
• Schopenhauer. Whichever one had those quotes abt art (comparing it to weeds, I think) that I was reading on that one science blog a while ago
• Open City
• The NYRB (mom got me a subscription but it's not here yet. I'm going to be so informed and middle-to-highbrow)
Yes, these last two are not books.
Books We Are Currently Reading:
• Dream Whip #14, by Bill Brown (Microcosm Publishing.) I should just get off my duff and write Bill Brown the fan letter I've been meaning to write him for years,. I was reading Dream Whip on the train today and thinking about Bill Brown and Al Burian, and how I'd happily read about the aimless travels of crackpot smart men for...well, how long you got?
I heard it might snow on Thursday.
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