Recent Reading

/ Trash by Dorothy Allison and Another Country by James Baldwin (Wanted some fiction to keep me company as we move into the new year.)

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Between Recent and Older Readings

A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World, Marcia Tucker, with help and editing from Liza Lou (Like Smith’s book below, I felt like there was a certain insistence on being clear about what it felt like to live her life and make the choices she made. She was a remarkable lady. I’m only sorry it took me this long to get to know her work.)

among others…

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Buddhism & Meditation


Since mid-2011, I really began to become more earnest in reading about Buddhism and meditation, though I had been curious about it and occasionally dipped a toe in here or there a handful of times before.

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Older Reading

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, Robert Pogue Harrison (This book is remarkable.)

A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece, edited by Jane Jacobs (I picked this up at the Strand Annex closing sale, the Alaska connection and Jane Jacobs involvement made me buy it. It’s a great story, a remarkable portrait of the people who fulfilled America’s Dreams in the new territories.)

And many more…

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