Mine too! Thanks!

Thanks, homie, and if that was the worst mistake you made while drunk then: Success!

34 no AARP magazine just yet 😉

River actually, and side note: today is Bruce and I's birthday! Yay yay!!

Most east coast Catholics are liberal like Midwestern Unitarians in most respects. They just also enjoy the history and pageantry, I guess.

Well, you don't have to necessarily, you could just accept that she started with a pretty ridiculous thesis statement and bent whatever facts she needed to support it. See, no defense needed!

She's a witch!!!

Cool! I'm willing to trust the makers of the show, I was not sold on a Surfer, Dude reunion and enjoyed the first season immensely (as well as the rest of the McCaughnaissance)

Who's Brit Marling?

He was good in Seven Psychopaths; that's pretty much all I've liked him in so far, though.

George Eliot! Duh, my addled brain read it as T.S. Makes a lot more sense now, for sure!

I've never heard of Iwaszkiewicz, but that sounds intriguing. Eliot and Proust seem semi-incongruous but that's the beauty of great writing; the marriage of seeming opposites. Thanks!

That happened on the Baum article yesterday. I'm kinda new at the commenting thing, is there anything other than ignore and flag that can be done? I like the social contract idea but it sure is annoying when some dbag dismisses it. Also what the hell do people hate Sonia Sairaya so much for?

His Collected Stories is marvelous. Good sampling of what he does well. I'll have to look up that article, as well.

Started the Ambassadors by Henry James and, like everything he writes, it's difficult but rewarding. Not as good as Wings of the Dove or Golden Bowl yet, but I'm only halfway through 😃

No kidding right. The funniest and saddest part is him chortling at his computer until he wheezes thinking this was a major issue as opposed to sad cry for help and a raised eyebrow from the rest of us. Ah well, if we were in the real world I'd take him to Independence and Olive in my hood and see how quick Old…

This is a sad way to work through whatever noxious feeling you have about women and yourself. I genuinely feel bad that this is how you're choosing to play out your Saturday (and life in general)

Something Happened gets overlooked by Heller, it's very good, as well if not game-changing like Catch 22. Side note: in Vonnegut 's collection of letters he's writing his editor (or someone) and mentions that James Jones told him that he was drinking at the New Yorker and he got to see the work Salinger had been…

Absolutely! The final scene makes me tear up just thinking about it. Irving doesn't always get it right, but when he does I think it's fair to call him our Dickens.

Hello Drew, I have that logo tattooed on me and while this is probably not the appropriate forum, here it is: fuck the Tigers!