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  Reading Watership Down , Richard Abrams It is hard for me to express how much I love this book.  As a kid, I only knew it from glimpses...

Reading I just read Autoportrait by the late Edouard Leve. It reads something like a memoir, but really it's just a long, disconnecte...

I finally got a copy of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard and opening it to any page is like a happy machine for me.  He says everythi...

For months, Amazon.com has not shut up to me about John Jeremiah Sullivan's book of essays, Pulphead . Every visit to that site has shov...

" Here is how to hand a glass deer a beetle. " from "Glass Deer." Oh, this guy and his poems. The newly released Scare...

Some recent purchases ". . . they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried the...

Someday I want to outfit one of these with some shelves, make it an ice-reading shack. I'll drag it out on Burt Lake and start spending...