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Inside Giovanni's Room
Rarely in my reading life, a book makes itself brilliant in the last pages. James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room works that way. It dazzles in...

Lori Brack
Mar 4, 20211 min read
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Historical Pynchon avoidance
The professor teaching the modern American novel that summer wore white polyester trousers so we could see his colored briefs. He went...

Lori Brack
Jan 18, 20212 min read
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Poetic Personal Experience (and social media)
Karen Craigo was the poetry editor at a couple of journals where my poems have appeared, and we communicate via Facebook but have never...

Lori Brack
Jun 15, 20201 min read
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Listening to the blues
Someone is always leaving By exile, death or heartbreak. Be who you are, even if it kills you. It will. Over and over again. Even as you...

Lori Brack
May 29, 20201 min read
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Intricate and Articulate
I can still hear her [Annie Dillard] say it: Put all your deaths, accidents, and diseases up front, at the beginning. Where possible. –...

Lori Brack
May 25, 20202 min read
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Delights
24. Umbrella in the Cafe Do you ever think of yourself, late to your meeting or peed your pants some or sent the private e-mail to the...

Lori Brack
May 9, 20202 min read
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Do we need a word?
Synchronistically this morning, two books are in conversation with each other and with our strange times. Or our ordinary ones. I'm not...

Lori Brack
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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Grimms' last story
Today I finished reading The Complete First Edition: The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by Jack...

Lori Brack
Apr 1, 20202 min read
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A Blessing
By James Wright Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those two Indian...

Lori Brack
Mar 25, 20202 min read
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Bird Watching through a Book
Book: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker Baker walks the water's edge near his home on the east coast of England and watches the birds, keeping...

Lori Brack
Mar 24, 20201 min read
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Welcome
Thank you for finding your way to my idiosyncratic, unplanned, and spontaneous reading blog. Each post will take you about 3 minutes to...

Lori Brack
Mar 23, 20201 min read
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