Summer Reading

All I want to do is read fiction. Sometimes I get nervous in the morning and nearly run to the subway stop so I can jump into the reading I left off late the night before.

BOOKS

In Progress:
The Black Book
Jude the Obscure
The Voyage Out

Dabbling In:
Stories of Dorothy Parker
40 Stories (Chekhov)
The Power Broker

Queued:
...

Completed:
Samedi the Deafness
Nightwood
Autobiography of Red
The Wife
Heart Songs
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
The Comedians
On Beauty
Portnoy's Complaint
Orlando
Because They Wanted To
The Grapes of Wrath
The Brooklyn Follies
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Our Man in Havana

Abandoned:
The Sea
The General in his Labyrinth
Then We Came to the End (Hit a nerve.)
The Namesake
In America
Donald Barthelme

Planned:
Edwidge Danticat
White Teeth
The Power and the Glory
Raymond Carver
The Emperor's Children
The Journalist and the Murderer
Present at the Creation
Jonathan Lethem

Catalogue

The Grand Chronology of Friends as Subjects and Sources in the Media

Preliminary findings

"The Talented History Student." New York Times. May 2006.

"Students defend protest actions." Metro. October 2006.

"Say Everything." New York, February 2007.

"One, Two, Three, Four, Can a Columbia Movement Rise Once More?" New York, April 2007.

"A Campus Buzzes with Protest and Political Debate." New York Times, September 2007.

"Ahmadinejad Says Americans Want to Hear Him." USA Today. September 2007.

"Quinn Rebukes Columbia on Iranian." The New York Sun. September 2007.

"PrezBo v. The Prof." The New Yorker. October 2007.

"The Amazing Adventures of Supergrad." The Washington Post. June 2008.

"Cruel, Cruel Summer." The New York Observer. July 2008.

"Election Day." Entry in Hendrik Hertzberg's blog. November 2008.

Faithless

From here:
"All true sons and daughters of Buffalo share a magic-realist belief that the city’s fate and the Bills’ are intertwined. Since that long-ago loss, Buffalo’s steel and grain-milling industries have gone from boom to bust. The city’s population has shrunk by nearly half. Abandoned grain silos line the urban lakefront like timber Paul Bunyan forgot to harvest. Had the Bills won the first Super Bowl, none of this would have happened!"