December 7, 2009

One of my favorite Elton John songs, now obscure nonetheless, movingly covered by Brandi Carlile.

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December 3, 2009
Season's Best at Indie Booksellers

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December 2, 2009
Christmas Wishlist 2009

Books: In the Lexington area, these are available at The Morris Book Shop.  This is a great place to go as you can support one of my favorite local businesses while getting me something I want:  two gifts in one.  A great idea in this economy.

  • Gore Vidal:  Snapshots in History’s Glare, Vidal
  • Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, Cathcart & Klein
  • Running Away, Toussaint
  • Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary Edition, Burroughs
  • Zeitoun, Eggers
  • The Complete Stories, O’Connor
  • Preservation of the Bluegrass, (forgot author)
  • In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Mueenuddin

I should also mention that I would be thrilled always to have gift certificates from a few of my favorite stores:

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December 1, 2009
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth."

— Flannery O’Connor

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December 1, 2009
Gore Vidal Interview

Gore Vidal submits to an interview with The Atlantic regarding his new pictorial memoir.

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November 30, 2009
Books are cozy.

For the first time in decades, reading is on the rise in the U.S., and other observations on the state of the written word, as art and industry.

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