Monday, December 2, 2024

Nov '24 Reading

 Here goes:

  1. Selected Stories 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
  2. Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
  3. True Grit by Charles Portis. Read by Donna Tartt--maybe best narration I've heard. 
  4. NYer of 10/21. "My Camp" by Joshua Cohen
  5. NYer of 10/28. "In England, in the days before the Industrial Revolution ruined everything, there were two professions a gentleman could pursue: wine merchant and rare-book dealer.  Neither required undue exertion."
  6. NYer of 11/11: Barry Blitt's cover is Lady Liberty walking a tightrope. 
  7. NYer of 11/4: Profile of Mati Diop , director of Dahomey, a film about the repatriation of indigenous art. (Touki Bouki directed by her uncle). 
  8. Legion of Super-Heroes Before the Great Darkness. Steven Ditko's fill in issues seem aggressively cartoonish
  9. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter. Lovely, episodic story about growing up and forgining relationships.
  10. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964. Read all these short stories decades ago. Still remembered and like Asimov, Clarke, Keyes. New appreciation for James Blish, Fritz Leiber, Tom Godwin.  Something worthwhile in all of them. 

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