THE CHANGING WORLD OF BOOKS ~

 

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    New York Review of Books

   2015

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BOOKS ~

 

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      Penguin 2021

80 BOOKS WILL TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD ~

 

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     Penguin 2021

PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES ~

 

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     The Overlook Press

     2012

PAUL YAMAZAKI ~

 

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The Paris Review

THE BOOK AT WAR ~

 

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Basic Books 2023

THE LOST ART OF READING ~

 

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Another title taken off the shelf

of my separate library of 

only small books built into

 the door casing of our bedroom door —

books on one side, beauty on the other side —

I returned to read this book after a few years

and it doesn't disappoint the true reader,

the fabulous reader (one with always a book going, always)

journeying with us into the world of

 forgotten authors like Alexander Trocchi

which is handled masterfully, this heroin

soaked master storyteller and also into

the young mind of Frank Conroy's Stop-Time

and somehow, even after reading 

forever portraits of Malcolm Lowry

and Jack Kerouac, Ulin has us on the road

with him and to poignant locations for

both authors, particularly Lowry, who

Ulin portrays vividly in one or two pages —

Then Ulin, darn it, ruins all the

care and culture of reading,

the passion that is essential

by bothering himself and thus us

with the stupid subject of the Internet.

As if it really means anything to the

passion of reading.

Book reading.

The art form

that many have died for, 

stolen, hoarded, hugged.

The Internet is a mere pest

compared to reading

Cain's Book.

[ BA ]

Sasquatch Books

2010

 

RE-READING GERALD MURNANE ~

 

The first time I read this little powerhouse engine

of a book I clearly had no idea what I was doing here —

I simply read the book with pleasure, but there is

no pleasure here (though there is), it's a workout,

and so for the second reading I spent two weeks

reading its railroad line 132 pages.

It may as well be 132 miles.

Never a slog. You won't believe

how well this writer will airlift you.

The third book in a straight line reading

I did over a month starting with Murnane, then Inger Christensen

and finishing with Hemingway, where I went from

A Moveable Feast straight back into the

short stories from Up In Michigan (which Stein disliked)

and then not messing around to The Big Two-Hearted River

(Kent and I believe the greatest fishing story ever written).

An onion sandwich, dipped in river water.

[ BA ]

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

2017

ALBERTO MANGUEL ~

DAVID BOWIE'S BOOKSHELF ~

R E A D      M E

a gem of a little book ~

Bowie's choices but it's

O'Connell's spirited

and well-researched

package

SLEEPER'S AWAKE ~

H O T E L    S P L E N D I D

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READ AWAY ! ~

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