{"id":70,"date":"2006-08-24T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2010-08-22T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:27:21","slug":"no-music-in-my-head-right-now-just-words-words-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/no-music-in-my-head-right-now-just-words-words-words\/","title":{"rendered":"no music in my head right now, just words words words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan bought us each a fun book for our week off. At first I was kind of annoyed, because they’re new (= hardcover, which is so heavy + space-sucking) and I’ve been trying to get us on the path of borrow from the library first, then buy only what we love (for money + space reasons). But I have to say, there’s nothing like opening up a pretty, fresh, tasty new book. The creamy paper, the embossed spine, the promise within. Yum, yum, yum. I couldn’t wait and started reading mine today<\/a>, and it is really really good.<\/p>\n

I’ve been fairly gorging on fiction since finishing my pop stat book<\/a>* a few weeks ago. Last week I read Saturday<\/a>, which was okay. I mean, he’s a good writer, and the tense bits were tense, but in the end it left me kind of eh<\/i>. Which is not what I expected from a book that made all the top 10 lists last year.<\/p>\n

* Oooh, be impressed! At least until I reveal that I skipped over the pages full of equations, that is. Then you can lose all respect for me whatsoever.<\/p>\n

But on the other hand, Steven Millhauser, where have you been all my life? He had a story in the New Yorker<\/i><\/a> a few months ago, which Jonathan ripped out for me to read (I don’t usually read the fiction in the New Yorker<\/i>, having been disappointed too often). And it was fantastic, in the true sense of the world. Very much like Borges. So I casually looked him up on Amazon one day and woah<\/a>, he’s written zillions of things! Right now I’m reading Little Kingdoms (SO good), and I have Martin Dressler out from the library too.<\/p>\n

How could we have missed him? Some of his stuff seems to have come out in our post-college first-round-of-grad-school days, when all I read was anthropology and Douglas Coupland, I think. But Martin Dressler won the Pulitzer in 1997 — where the hell was I? Probably toiling too late in the early new media trenches (and partying in indiepopland), but still, that’s no excuse.<\/p>\n

Classes start up again next week, so I’ve only got a bit longer to fatten myself up solely on inventive narrative. Chomp, chomp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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