cultcha post

[sanpaku_backup]

Oh, and feeling creative has no doubt a lot to do with being immersed in good culture again, or trying very hard to be, at least. Within the past few weeks:

The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
City of God, EL Doctorow
Roscoe, William Kennedy
Sufjan's Seven Swans ("All the Trees of the Field" is just haunting my life right now)

...and I'm midway through Philip Roth's The Counterlife. So, so good.

So, it's not just nostalgia; the train is very slowly lurching forward again. Recommendations, anyone?

Comments

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I have an anti-recommendation. I picked up The Red Tent at Goodwill and I am more than 50 pages in and I still haven't identified a plot. This may be the first novel I have tried to read in like 8 years, so I feel especially disappointed!

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

Oh, I disliked that book! I didn't get past page 100. But the people in my book group loved it. Then we preceded to argue more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Le sigh.

[flw.livejournal.com]

I am in the midst of condensing my CD collection into mp3s that I will burn on to CDs, It'll probably all fit onto two CDs. I will send...

[laurens10.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed "The Rebel Angels" by Robertson Davies. Although the book was slow going, there are some brilliant moments in there about the nature of good and evil, among many other topics. I bought the rest of the trilogy, which I hope to read one day, slow reader that I am.