2009

6. July 5 - August 10

Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell
Kevin Baker, "Barack Hoover Obama," Harpers July 2009
Chris Mullin, "Diary," LRB 31:12
Iain Sinclair on Ackroyd's sacred Thames, same issue
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, tr. Edith Grossman, Of Love and Other Demons (Knopf/Vintage) [1994/2008]
Joss Whedon, Firefly [2002]
Joss Whedon, Serenity [2005]
W.E. Henley, In Hospital (Thomas B. Mosher) [1903] (written 1873-5, first pub. 1888)
Ruby-throated hummingbirds
Brad Paisley, "Welcome to the Future"
Miles Davis, In a Silent Way [1969]
Wiktor Woroszylski, The Life of Mayakovsky (Grossman/Orion) [1971]
Michael Almereyda, ed., Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG) [2008]
Kohlrabi slaw
Presidential press conference, July 22
Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913-1956 (Methuen) [1976]
The Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
The Mets disaster
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
The Believer All-Music Issue 2009 cd, curated by Daniel Handler, esp. Mike Scott, Lloyd Cole, David Sylvian
Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Pinback Pretenders Adam Ant Police Squeeze Ferdinand Strokes of Canada
Rosemarie Bodenheimer's piece on Delany's Gissing bio, LRB 31:13
Joan as Police Woman, To Survive [2008]
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury) [2005]
Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road (Grossman) [1970]
Forrest Gander, As a Friend (New Directions) [2008]
J.C. on Oulipo and Creeley's inaugural lecture, TLS July 10
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop