Friday, December 20, 2024

BECCA ROTHFELD ~

 



R E A D   M E


   Metropolitan Books

   2024



Thursday, December 19, 2024

GREIL MARCUS ~

 



R E A D   M E


      Yale University Press 2024



Wednesday, December 18, 2024

GEORGE KALAMARAS : NEW POEMS AT LONGHOUSE ~

 


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Sunday, December 15, 2024

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Friday, December 13, 2024

KEVIN BARRY ~

 



Doubleday, 2024


R E A D   M E


Every book by Barry is much

worth your late nights ~

you'll see this new novel ends

like a Leonard Cohen song



Thursday, December 12, 2024

SANDY DENNY ~

 


    Earth Recordings

    2024



Tuesday, December 10, 2024

PETER MILLER: SHOPKEEPING ~

 




From the publisher:

For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.

Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it. By the end, you can’t help wanting to own a shop.


     PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

     2024



Monday, December 9, 2024

Saturday, December 7, 2024

WILLIE NELSON ~



                                              BA C K R O A D   C H A L K I E

D E C E M B E R     2 0 2 4


Willie Nelson long ago speaking about

a way of music, and music is often

applied many ways

Friday, December 6, 2024

NANCY SINATRA ~

 



Nancy Sinatra /Lee Hazelwood

   1966




Thursday, December 5, 2024

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

MORE DORIANNE LAUX ~

 



The Optimism of French Toast



No matter how many years since

the first bite passed my lips, that business

of eggs and day-old bread, ribbon of syrup,

fireflies of butter sparking my tongue's buds,

I think of my Arcadian ancestors

landing on the shores of Nova Scotia, dragging

logs from the deep woods, fashioning windows,

hanging laundry from two oars dug into sand —

the flags of domesticity flayed by the wind.

I see the fruits of their labor rise up

from the marshes: beets, parsnips, cabbages

and corn, and the wheat they ground

to powder and baked into bread.

And the chicken shook out egg after egg

we broke into shallow bowls, beat

with a spoon, each thick slice dipped

into that loom of albumen, chalazae and yolk,

then laid on a scrim of grease in the pan

where it sizzled its solitary song.

How could these French be

considered a scrouge, their houses

burned to the ground they had worked,

forced to take the tangled circuity

of dirt roads with nothing but what

they could carry on their backs? No time

for funerals, no place to go. And yet

here I am at my kitchen table listening

to Clifton Chenier on the radio, daughter

of a people who refused to die: sacks

of wheat on their shoulders, spoon

in a belt loop, sugar sprinkled in a pant cuff,

a sleeping chicken hidden under a coat.


____________________

Dorianne Laux

Life on Earth

Norton, 2024




Monday, December 2, 2024