Book Shelves #45, 11.04.2012

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Book shelves series #45, forty-fifth Sunday of 2012

Yon shelf, murky, dim:

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Homeboy on the end, once my parents’,  tschotchke of time in ’80s South Africa, used to work as a bookend, now he just hangs out on this double-booked shelf.

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Front layer:

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Back layer, including a number of volumes (to be clear: Chabon, Martel, Diaz, Eugenides) I should just trade in.

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(Also: I hate this project and wish I’d never started it).

Election Propaganda — William Hogarth

Lincoln (Louis CK)

“A Different Man” — Lydia Davis

Woman Reading — Mary Cassatt

Watermill Procession (Kurosawa’s Dreams)

 

“The Brain within its groove” — Emily Dickinson

Quiet Days — Michael Sowa

Monstrous Hog of Landser — Albrecht Durer

D.T. Max Talks About His David Foster Wallace Biography

David Markson Comments on Some Athenian Playwrights

Reading — Henri Fantin-Latour

Derrida’s Terror

Definition of “Vote” (Ambrose Bierce)

The Movement of the Lips — Jacques Hérold

Crazy Golden Slippers — Andy Warhol

(From a 1957 issue of LIFE).

“Montparnasse” — Ernest Hemingway