The 1984 documentary is available at Amazon, where you can watch a clip. Now there is also Randy Schilts’ book. I recently saw the new Milk at the Fairfax, which is in Marin County – one of the right places to see the film for me. I got to follow the original Milk events at … More Trailer Thursday: The Times of Harvey Milk and Occupation 101
The World That Made New Orleans both delights and instructs. So does John Pizer’s The Idea of World Literature. I recommend it to anyone, but especially to those in or interfacing with an English Department. I am also reading the Princeton Review. The website has a calculator which conjugates your GPA and test scores to … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Ned Sublette, John Pizer, and the Princeton Review
“Then the populace closes in again, so quickly and densely that it seems impossible it could ever have been parted, and negro water-carriers, muffled women, beggars streaming with sores, sinewy and greasy “saints,” Soudanese sorcerers hung with amulets made of sardine-boxes and hares’-feet, long-lashed boys of the Chleuh in clean embroidered caftans, Jews in black … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Edith Wharton
In this post we will discuss Neil Postman, whom I did read for pleasure, but first we will mention my least favorite book of all time: The Velveteen Rabbit. I avoid public radio at this time of year because it is given to reading this book. THE VELVETEEN RABBIT I dislike The Velveteen Rabbit intensely … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Neil Postman. A Book of Anti-Pleasure: The Velveteen Rabbit
Sunday’s NYT Magazine had a number of essays on higher education and university level teaching. I am going to read it. I have heard it is very good. I know I should want to read the Chronicle of Higher Education but am I the only one who finds it – well, goody-goody? Axé.
I thought crème fraîche only grew in France – i.e. that it was hard to make and only French dairies chose to make it – but it is easy to make and we can make it here. That means we can have it without going to France. Take 1 pint heavy cream, ideally not ultrapasteurized, … More Crème Fraîche
I have begun to read Ma Jian’s novel Beijing Coma. It is famous – it has been I would like to read the Book of Mountains and Seas, but not reading Chinese, I cannot. Yet I know of it. See how interesting it is. * Ma Jian’s narrator is in a coma. Yet he can … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Shan-hai Ching
Most of this post was written before Hurricane Gustav came into being, but these first paragraphs are written from my very couch, with the help of electricity restored by workers from northern Texas! Other emergency workers I saw were from Kentucky, Indiana, and Oklahoma, and of course from here. There must have been many more, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Charles Barber, Helen Redmond
If I had time I would read all the contemporary Chinese novels discussed in the August 4/11 Nation. If you read the articles and then do a search on the book titles, you will see how famous each one is. I am interested in them because they sound interesting, but also because I kept hearing, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Chinoiserie
For the third day in a row I have failed to get into the Lima film festival. It is somewhat disappointing, but now I know: you have to study the program way ahead of time, and drop down on those tickets like a hawk the first hour they are available. I justified buying Jorge Bruce’s … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Jorge Bruce
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