Two new movies are coming out about Jane Austen and her novel Pride and Prejudice. Both look equally fantastic, original and I can’t wait to see them both. What are there titles you ask? Well I’ll tell you.
The first one is called Pride and Predator and it’s about Elizabeth Bennett and [...]

It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music by Amanda Petrusich is a travelogue of americana, country, folk and all around american roots music.  Petrusich is a writer for Pitchfork.com, and It Still Moves is her first book.  ISM attempts to follow, city by city, area by area, [...]

Let it be know that I really like Terry Gross, and think Fresh Air is a fantastic NPR program.  William Ayers was on the most recent program and he had something really interesting things to say.  One of which was, after being asked by Terry Gross, how he felt when Sarah Palin would go on [...]

I was reading ^ that book and Marcus quotes D. H. Lawrence when talking about freedom in America, and in David Lynch’s portrayal of America through the community in the show Twin Peaks.  The community in the show is located in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington as far west and north you can [...]

I need to talk to you about Son of Laughter as soon as I finish it (hopefully tomorrow.)
I have less than 100 pages.  It’s by far my favorite Buechner so far, and it’s incredible how simple yet profound his insight is into the biblical story of Jacob…
I’ll call you about it soon, Kate.
What’s everyone else [...]

I just want to say, very quickly, that I just finished the first Harry Potter.  Quite some time has passed since it’s release, yes, tell me about it.  I enjoyed it very much, I will start Chamber of Secrets shortly, but not until I read Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner.
Seriously, if you’ve never read [...]

So two of my friends just finished reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s first book Everything is Illuminated in the past few weeks.  Both said it was really good, one said it became his favorite book.  I loved it when I read it.  It’s so funny, and heartbreaking.  And just good, well-written, etc.
At work today I was [...]

Last night Kurt Vonnegut died as a result of damage to his brain for a fall he had a week or so ago.  I’m about to finish Capote’s In Cold Blood, and after I plan on reading Breakfast of Champions.  This news makes me sad, as I yet have no really good reason to feel [...]

Okay, number one I believe in absolute truth.  I believe it exists and is represented in nature.  While I am still in doubt (or faith, depending on your perspective) of whether or not we can actually know this truth or not, whether we can know “the thing itself” of Nietzsche would say, I believe it [...]