Reading (now)

Just bought The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders. That'll be started tonight.

Cloud Shaped Room came in today. Very excited to re-read a fellow WVU MFA-er (alumnus): Matt Anserello.

Starting the Matthew Zapruder saga, too. Step one: American Linden.

For fiction...

(oh, what?)

I was gonna overload with some more Saunders, but I should probably not. SO, I have Aimee Bender's The Girl in the Flammable Skirt in my bag. But I also find myself lonely for Millhauser's The Knife Thrower.

Peeves Me

Please, no more sickly gushing, high-falootin praises and/or critiques of poetry.

Why can't we talk about poetry in terms of how we enjoy it, like how we'd consider food or music.

Aaron Rote and Matthew Zapruder helped me come to put words to that realization. Thanks, chaps.