Stunning passage from Denis Johnson's 'Largesse of the Sea Maiden'
Halfway through Denis Johnson's Largesse of the Sea Maiden, I was liking but not really loving it. There were scattered wondrous moments,...
"The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden"!
Only 3 more days! Denis Johnson's The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden comes out Tuesday, and my pre-order should arrive then. His story...
Loving the book too: 'Call Me By Your Name'
Well I'm only on p. 13, but I generally know right away when I fall for a book, and this had me from page 1. It's also really interesting...
Call Me By Your Name: beautiful
I saw Call Me By Your Name Saturday night, and feared it might be another gay film for straight people like Moonlight. It was so much...
Back to Madame Bovary
I gave up on this gorgeous novel on p. 56 on November 1, because it was so meandering to the point of near plotlessness. But I gave my...
More on Huck Finn—on the Facebook response
So I posted here about giving up on Huck Finn, and also on my Facebook page. That drew a lot of heated reaction, by people who loved the...
Giving up on Huck Finn—I think
Halfway through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I think I’ve given up. The writing is glorious, scene-setting vivid and satire...
Best Huck Finn sentence so far—inspiration for gay soldiers
and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods
The Silmarillion, my favorite JRR Tolkien
I just reviewed a few books for Goodreads and decided to share one of them here: I read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion after Lord of...
Huck Finn
I just ordered Huckleberry Finn, after discussing Mark Twain with a friend this weekend. I read it way too early in high school. Time to...
