I hope everyone is celebrating with their favorite heart-shaped foods and plenty of face-to-face time.
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Aloha, from Key West!
Happy holidays and best of luck in 2011, from the Wheelers and all the Blue Heaven hens, rooster, and chicks!
Some Quotes from Netherland
How awesome is this book? Going back over the places I’ve marked, I’m still amazed. These were too good not to share, even if they are too long for tweeting or status updating.
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the doubtful sources of his information and the seemingly bottomless history and darkness out of which the dishes of New York emerge, the deeper grew my suspicion that his work finally consisted of minting or perpetuating and in any event circulating misconceptions about his subject and in this way adding to the endless perplexity of the world.”
“We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one’s life?”
“She had decided that I could handle the truth, or that I should handle it. I did, just about. And though I cannot say it made me stronger, I have the comfort of knowing, with the benefit of hard-won hindsight, that something is going right if I am a little nervous as to what my wife may say next.”
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Happy Father’s Day!
Review of Kapitoil
My review of Teddy Wayne’s debut novel Kapitoil is up on The Millions!
Weeks of Feb 22 – Mar 17, 2010
Did I mention we went to New York last month?
Dispatch from The Hyphenates of Jackson County
“The sidewalk was cluttered with her belongings, her furniture and clothes, a Victrola phonograph cabinet and a stack of records, a crate of wine bottles, a small painted portrait of a girl who could have been Evie standing on the plush cushion of a high-backed chair. There were several lounging chairs the men brought out too, upholstered with threadbare green fabric, small pillows to match. They were cheap pieces, second hand, perhaps, but nicer than what most people had on the Ward. And maybe her furniture didn’t look so shabby in a dark room, Jacob thought, out of the sun. It was very bright suddenly, the air warming on what was becoming a cloudless August sky. Jacob could feel the heat of it on his skin, through his shirt.”
Personal Rejection Notes, Requests for More, and Other Nice Versions of No Thanks
American Short Fiction for “The Current State of the Universe”; Salt Hill and The Missouri Review for “The Housekeeper”; Hunger Mountain for “These Things That Save Us”; Identity Theory for “You Know That I Loved You”; Makeout Creek for “Lycaon” and “From Indiana.”
Just Finished
Point Omega by Don DeLillo. Mostly it’s enjoyable for its language, with some nice plot here and there too. I didn’t really go for much of the eschatological theory, although that might be how it’s supposed to be taken.
Now Reading
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris. I thought this started off horribly slow and redundant, but have been getting into after the first hundred pages.
Up Next
31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan
Man with Daughter
We took some photos with Christine McGuigan last month since
I never seem to have a nice head shot when I need one. This was a very nice birthday present from Nicole. We also did a few family ones. I’ll be putting a few of them up on here sporadically, so let me know what you think.
We’ll start with a couple of Maddie, because she’s a lot nicer to look at than me. These were taken at the soda fountain at the Durham Museum.
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