Only a few actual books last month, and February may be the same.
- NYer 2/5/24. Rae Armantrout as finest living poet?
- NYer 5/23/22. The entire budget of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is less than the salary of the conductor of the Chicago SO.
- The Nation, Jan.24 Article on how early American families (Roosevelts etc) profited from opium trade.
- Invincible v. 12: Hmm, I don't remember this so well...
- Invincible v. 11: Oh, that's why!
- Redwall by Brian Jacques. "Jess [the squirrel] observed there was difference between slaving under a tyrant and voluntary cooperation that arose from determination and good fellowhip."
- Best American Short Stories of the Century. (775 pages). Top="That Evenin' Sun," "Crazy Sunday" (FSF), "That In Aleppo Once.." VN; The Farmer's Children (Bishop); "Where I'm Calling From"; "The Things Tehy Carried"; Mensetting (Alice Monroe); "Soon" (Pam Durban)
- Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport & Hugh Kenner. There's a lot. Over time Davenport's letters emerged as more humane, HK seems brittle and a bit pretentious at times.
- NYer 1/29/24 [Song dynasty poet Wei T'ai] said poetry 'should be precise about the thing and tericent about the feeling."
