Except mortality.

Phew. I thought I was losing my shit!
Noah's updated.
https://twitter.com/Trevorn…

Just to defend my hometown, I gleaned these facts from the Chicago Tribune: "Voter turnout heavy in Chicago." "Cook [in which Chicago lies] and collar counties, with at least 65% of [Illinois's] population [went] to Clinton." And that last heavily.

Yes, I remember their ads in The Onion.

I love Jarmusch, but Limits of Control was just…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

A BOOK-LENGTH poem!

My love for On Beauty may be circumstantial. My first Smith novel, my age at the time.
I did love the prologue of Autograph Man.
I don't know how you'll feel about NW. Multiple perspectives, but they vary stylistically, which I loved, more like The Sound and the Fury than White Teeth.
I'm enjoying Swing Time a lot.…

I'm halfway through Swing Time, so I'll withhold ranking. I on the other hand have read NW (it's great, if not her best; On Beauty was my first Smith novel and may be my favorite) but I've held off on Autograph Man. Not entirely true-I read the prologue. Then I had to hock it.

SWING TIME by Zadie Smith, my favorite novelist under the age of, say, 60.
I've read many books of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction but, in the past two years, hadn't read a novel straight through. I'm about halfway through this one though, and it's a delight.

What's interesting is that the debut wasn't a big underground hit initially, but a cult record that grew in popularity over the years. It probably sold more in the past five years than the first five. Hell, I just got into it two years ago (I've long been a big fan of Tim Kinsella's stuff but just never chanced onto…

No baseball coverage? At all?
GO MOTHERFUCKING CUBS!

Yup! I just jumped on here after loving the last episode. Bummed to see these trail off like…

The younger one is Iris.

Ugh, she really Britta'd it, huh.

Well you're outta line, mister.

FUUUUUUUCK. :(

SNATCH.

Do you consider Eric Dolphy free jazz? I see Out to Lunch is categorized on Wiki as avant-garde jazz. He's pretty damn musical.
I love free jazz but I get that when you get around to Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, etc., it's less about pleasant music than execution of ideas. I just happen to love those…

She's great.

Nice to see Lucia Berlin getting press around here.