reading now

[Tim Strzechowski]

Michael Chabon, _The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ (for a book
group)

Dow Mossman, _The Stones of Summer_ (upon a friend's recommendation)

Charles Dickens, _A Tale of Two Cities_ (in facsimile installments)
http://dickens.stanford.edu/index.html

Kenneth S. Lynn, _Charlie Chaplin and His Times_ and Joel Black, _The
Reality
      Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative_ (for an upcoming
class I will
      teach)

and . . .

Arthur C. Clarke, _Rendezvous with Rama_ (in the car, at red lights)