Reading
Currently reading: Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues by Albert Murray π
Currently reading: Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie as told to Albert Murray π
Finished reading: Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray: What a brilliant and delightful correspondence (which ended when Murray moved to Harlem, a few blocks from Ellison, making it unnecessary for them to write β their gain, our loss). π
Currently reading: Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs by Albert Murray π
Currently reading: Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray π
Currently reading: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison π
(Decided to save Solzhenitsyn for later)
Welp, I’m going in. If you don’t hear from me in a month, call the FBI, or a priest. π
Finished reading: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne. Somewhat disappointing; the author died before the book was altogether complete, and left some organizational confusion. But the subject could scarcely be more fascinating. π
Currently reading: The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne π
Currently reading: Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Ellison π
Currently reading: The Complete Short Novels by ΠΠ½ΡΠΎΠ½ ΠΠ°Π²Π»ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ Π§Π΅Ρ ΠΎΠ² π
Currently reading: The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A.J.A. Symons π
Finished reading: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Just as I had remembered it: brilliant and bombastic, magnificent and maddening. π
Currently reading: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy π
Currently reading: Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett π
Currently reading: Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition by Josef Albers π
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Currently reading: The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World by Rachel Ignotofsky π (It’s delightful!)
Finished reading: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Impressive in many ways and often delightful, but essentially itβs The Further Adventures of the Glass Family. If you had always hoped that Salinger would in his hermetic withdrawal write a big sprawling ambitious 500-page novel, well, here it is. I donβt mean that as either a compliment or an insult. π
Currently reading: The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt π