rostasi Posted April 9, 2017 Report Share Posted April 9, 2017 (edited) Someone, elsewhere, was looking for an interview that Art Lange did with John Cage in Lange's periodical Brilliant Corners, so I decided to take some time to send it on to this person as well as re-read this and some other issues of this nice bit of '70s history. Edited April 9, 2017 by rostasi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted April 12, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 Re-reading Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding, as well as the third volume of Simon Callow's Orson Welles biography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 12, 2017 Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted April 12, 2017 Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 5 hours ago, paul secor said: Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home Interested in your reaction. I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 12, 2017 Report Share Posted April 12, 2017 1 hour ago, danasgoodstuff said: Interested in your reaction. I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised. It sat on my shelf for years, unread. No good reason why. I found it ok, but in need of a lot of editing. Way overwritten - at least for my tastes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) On 3/23/2017 at 8:11 AM, BillF said: A lesser Le Carré, but he's always worth reading IMHO. Another of the same ilk. Edited April 13, 2017 by BillF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted April 13, 2017 Report Share Posted April 13, 2017 Layli Long Soldier: Whereas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnblitweiler Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 On 3/25/2017 at 11:14 AM, BillF said: Had mixed fortunes with the movie. Loved it when I saw it on release c.1960 - thought it hip and amusing, but found it tedious when I had a second look at it a few years ago. Perhaps I'm old and jaded, or perhaps it just belonged to its time and place. I too saw the movie a second time and didn't even smile at all. But I loved Queneau's novel Zazie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted April 16, 2017 Report Share Posted April 16, 2017 Julian Barnes – Keeping An Eye Open: Essays on Art (Alfred A. Knopf) Interesting essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenberg, L. Freud, and Hodgkin; many of them previously published in the magazine Modern Painters] and elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jlhoots Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Apuleius's The Golden Ass After that, Murakami's 1Q84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 A best seller of considerable literary merit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 23, 2017 Report Share Posted April 23, 2017 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted April 24, 2017 Report Share Posted April 24, 2017 Robert Pirsig (1928-2017) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 25, 2017 Report Share Posted April 25, 2017 Denis Theriault: The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted April 25, 2017 Report Share Posted April 25, 2017 (edited) Philip Kerr – March Violets [first volume in the Bernie Gunther Berlin Noir trilogy] Edited April 25, 2017 by alankin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 4, 2017 Report Share Posted May 4, 2017 Nat Hentoff: Boston Boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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paul secor Posted May 5, 2017 Report Share Posted May 5, 2017 The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 Getting ready to start this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonnyhill Posted May 8, 2017 Report Share Posted May 8, 2017 On 3/24/2017 at 3:05 PM, erwbol said: Daniel C. Dennett From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds How was this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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erwbol Posted May 9, 2017 Report Share Posted May 9, 2017 (edited) On 5/8/2017 at 11:12 PM, sonnyhill said: How was this one? I still haven't finished this, but not because it isn't good. I got distracted by several fiction books that did a better job of holding my attention. I also usually read two or more non-fiction books at the same time. Dennett does take his time to get to his explanation of consciousness, however. A lot of groundwork in the first half. I never read Consciousness Explained, so I can't compare, but his ideas have evolved, so if you never read any Dennett, this latest book is probably the best pick. Hopefully the later chapters will deliver. My mind isn't blown yet. Edited May 9, 2017 by erwbol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonnyhill Posted May 10, 2017 Report Share Posted May 10, 2017 (edited) 16 hours ago, erwbol said: I still haven't finished this, but not because it isn't good. I got distracted by several fiction books that did a better job of holding my attention. I also usually read two or more non-fiction books at the same time. Dennett does take his time to get to his explanation of consciousness, however. A lot of groundwork in the first half. I never read Consciousness Explained, so I can't compare, but his ideas have evolved, so if you never read any Dennett, this latest book is probably the best pick. Hopefully the later chapters will deliver. My mind isn't blown yet. Thanks erwbol. I am always looking for interesting science/technology non-fiction. I just finished I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong; I liked it. I generally only read one book at a time and usually alternate between fiction and non-fiction. The Dennett looks interesting for my next non-fiction selection. Can anyone recommend a well-written mystery novel published in the last five to seven years? The last mystery novel I read was Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley. Edited May 10, 2017 by sonnyhill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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