Going home means I always wind up rereading some book I loved when I was younger. I remember picking up The Mill on the Floss the summer we moved to Long Island. I was about to enter 7th grade, knew nobody in town, except for the 6 year-old boy who lived with his grandparents next [...]
George Eliot, 1860
August 3rd, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Books · George Eliot · Literature · Long Island · Remembered · Siblings · The Mill on the Floss
From Appropriation to Exceptionalism
July 20th, 2008 No Comments
I’ve been watching a lot of Law & Order.
But I have also been reading.
Books I’ve Read Since Summer ‘08 Reached Its Murky Middle Month:
Jules Feiffer, Harry, The Rat With Women
Location: The 1 Local, mostly.
Dates: June 30th - July 1st
Comments: The guy who did the illustrations for The Phantom Tollbooth wrote a book? Really? From 1963. [...]
Tags: Appropriation · Claire Messud · Exceptionalism · Jules Feiffer · Learned · Literature · Milan Kundera · NY Times · Reading