Thank you for finding your way to my idiosyncratic, unplanned, and spontaneous reading blog.
Each post will take you about 3 minutes to read - I promise. Maybe you'll be inspired to read something you discover here, or take a moment to enjoy the passages from what I'm reading. And please leave a comment if you have books to recommend or other ideas.
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 its last chapters not only because the characters come to thei
The professor teaching the modern American novel that summer wore white polyester trousers so we could see his colored briefs. He went over the syllabus the first day and waxed academically profound a
Karen Craigo was the poetry editor at a couple of journals where my poems have appeared, and we communicate via Facebook but have never met in person. A benefit of Facebook, which I generally deplore