Dang! Laredo, TX's last bookstore (a crummy B. Dalton) is closing down! With almost a quarter million population, Laredo will soon become the largest book-less US city.
Check it: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/12/bookstore-laredo-texas.html
Now I feel like an asshole for posting what I posted yesterday. I'm like some...Henry VIII, gorging on literary turkey legs, while the less fortunate Texans till the barren soil of the books I own but haven't read.
Was Henry VIII the one that ate turkey legs? Does this metaphor make any fucking sense at all?
Let's see in the comments...
Another year! Jeez...
Hey, what to read this academic intersession? There's so much good stuff!
Wait a minute...isn't break like, 10 days or something? I seem to remember last year's break being long enough to beard up. I want a longer break. For reading! With a beard!
There are many things to read. What are you reading this break? Is there anything I should read? How do you read? I can't figure out what to read. I want to read. I can read.
Reading!!!!!
i know it's hard, but it's probably nothing to kill yourself over. but way to finish the thesis.
3 comments Posted by Iris Moulton at 3:18 PM
Joe Bolton was from Cadiz, Kentucky. It may sound like a strange place to be from, and I imagine it is, but some of the happiest time ever spent on earth I imagine was spent by me, and in Cadiz Kentucky, a few months before I would ever hear of Joe Bolton.
He published three books of poetry: Breckenridge County Suite (1987), Days of Summer Gone (1990), and Last Nostalgia Poems (1987-1990). Last Nostalgia Poems combines the two books, and other unpublished poems.
I would recommend picking up a copy.Nameless LeTTer.
I find ephemera all the time in the books I go through when I'm working at The Dusty Bookshelf. We keep the cool things, the interesting things. I leave original receipts in the books for the new owner to delightfully (or annoyingly?) find. We've found, probably, thousands of bookmarks over the years. In the Manhattan DB, there is a large shoebox full of these bookmarks. So now there's this site where you create a particular bookmark for a particular book and put it out there for someone to find. It's akin to the project where people put whole books in public places with notes for people to find and read and then put in another public place for someone else to find and read. It's sharing literary love.
Then there's another site: FOUND Magazine. Ephemera. Life left in books, in records, in life.
Man, first day back to school. Is it all downhill, or uphill from here? What about plateauing? Nobody talks about plateauing.
Are there good books to read? Did you read any of those over academic intersession?
Let me imagine you at a windowsill, under a quilt pattern drinking spiced tea. What good reading did you do at that time?
