Archive for March, 2009

This year I will be living closer to Bonnaroo than ever, but I just saw the announcement for Forecastle Festival, which is in Louisville in July (better timing for me, too) for cheaper.

http://www.forecastlefest.com/

Did I mention The Black Keys? : )

A fairly in-depth article regarding the current financial crisis and it’s influence on power structures in America today. The title was just to grab your attention. Or was it?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover

“We’re moving to an oligopolistic situation,” Kenneth Guenther, a top executive with the Independent Community Bankers of America, lamented after the Gramm measure was passed….

Brackets. Now.

Trev?

Yo. In anticipation of the many hours I will be spending in a rocking chair this year, I’ve been raiding Project Gutenberg for free plain text downloads. To fill in some of my personal deficiencies, I’ve so far grabbed some Ibsen, Gogol, and Joyce’s Dubliners.

Last year I was deep in “Modern,” Harlem Renaissance, and even some Russian short stories. I just grabbed some more Russian shorts, but I’m also looking for advice on which Russian novels to start with. Ideas?

I’m really, really weak in fiction of the last 70 years. I’ve read like ten novels I can think of from the last two decades. It’s lame. Help?

Do you have suggestions of places to start with Saul Bellow and Flannery O’Connor? And, really, should I read Gabriel García Márquez? I’ve always resisted, but I just read an article by Rushdie about how GGM’s novels are grotesquely mangled when turned into movies, so I can’t even cheat and watch the adaptations.

And any other suggestions you have are welcome. Maybe we can negotiate a lending trade … how very recession-minded.