things read & heard
Bill Millard
millard at cuadmin.cis.columbia.edu
Wed Jan 8 16:56:16 CST 1997
I'm glad to see so many people on the list share my habit of reading
several books concurrently; I've sometimes received weird comments
about that. (But I only have two of 'em going right now; some of the
seven-book jugglers around here make me feel like a piker.)
Now batting:
Ben Bradlee, A Good Life (say what you will, Chomskyishly, about
old-school-tie Harvard establishment guys like this, he still did a
lot to bring down the most malicious and dangerous president we've
ever had, plus he's a witty bastard, which helps)
Marcus Gray, Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of The Clash
(obsessive in reconstructed detail, but very far from fanclub drool;
astoundingly and wilfully hostile, in fact, in many aspects; still
intriguing if yer life was changed by rock & roll, punk variety)
Just finished:
TRP, Vineland (second time around; didn't give quite the same buzz
as when it was new, but still deceptively deep, and some of the
closing scenes continue to blow me away: "They take away your
bones....")
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (two very discreet cheers for
unreliable narrators! Paging Italo Svevo, please pick up the white
courtesy phone)
In the on-deck circle:
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Was Huck Black?
new TRP and DdL, of course, whenever they appear
Shouldn't forget the periodical section:
The Nation, NY Review of Books, Harper's, Wired, etc.
Currently in heavy rotation:
the Costello & Nieve live acoustic box set
Richard Thompson, You? Me? Us?
Wilco, Being There
Aimee Mann, I'm with Stupid
Pere Ubu, Raygun Suitcase
various artists, Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar assortment
(Am I the only person here who hasn't heard Beck's Odelay yet?)
Enough already,
Bill
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