Read in 2009
Jose Saramago / Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Thomas Mann / The Magic Mountain
Mikhail Bulgakov / The Master and Margarita
Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing
Graham Greene / The Power and the Glory
Virginia Woolf / Mrs. Dalloway
Bill Davis / Mass Appeal
Chris Adrian / A Better Angel
Nam Le / The Boat
William Gass / Tests of Time
Haruki Murakami / Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Colson Whitehead / Sag Harbor
Karen Russell / St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Virginia Woolf / Orlando
Walker Percy / The Moviegoer
Michael Ondaatje / In The Skin of A Lion
Nicole Krauss / Man Walks Into a Room
James Joyce / Ulysses
Steig Larsson / Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Nicholas Christopher / A Trip to the Stars
Randall Jarrell / No Other Book
William Gass / Habitations of the Word
Paul Bowles / Collected Stories
Franz Kafka / Zurau Aphorisms
Italo Calvino / Hermit in Paris
Thomas Pynchon / Inherent Vice
Lorrie Moore / Self Help
Clarice Lispector / Near to the Wild Heart
Italo Calvino / If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Aleksander Hemon / The Lazarus Project
Steig Larsson / The Girl Who Played With Fire
Sarah Hall / How to Paint a Dead Man
Dave Eggers / Zeitoun
Steig Larsson / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Haruki Murakami / Kafka on the Shore
Matt: Who is that woman on the left? No one knows who that is. It’s Justin Timberlake, Peyton, and the little girl on the right is from the Windows commercials.
Me: She’s internet famous. She has a blog and whatever.
Matt: Oh you read her blog?
Me: No. Definitely not.
Matt: So how do you know who she is then?
Me: [sheeeeee-it…]
It says 8pm til question mark. That means we don’t even know when it ends.
— JD on Scrubs.
When I was 20 someone once mistakenly thought my name was Ryan Klesko, like the ballplayer. The name stuck. I can’t even tell you how many people have listed in their phones under that name. Hence when my friends made everyone stockings for Sunday night’s Friendsgiving™, this one was mine.
The Temptations ~ Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter (via jennabee)
Usher Vs. Los Campesinos! ~ The Year This Club Broke (My Heart)
I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent,
dedicated to invisible countries.
— Czeslaw Milosz
A lopsided victory? A blowout?
For a long time, he communicated exclusively by answering machine. I would leave him a message at some point during the day—he didn’t answer the phone—and then, late at night, when I was no longer at my desk, he would leave a very long response on my voicemail. I didn’t take this personally—it was a quirk of his, and I think he was perhaps more open and direct speaking to a machine than he would have been speaking directly to another voice.
— Via GQ, Yes We Are Still Missing DFW
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Wild Horses - Iron and Wine
It’s cover friday so here’s mine. Original by the Rolling Stones.
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I wish there was better video, but I witnessed this at the Islander game last night. Thompson could have walked the puck to the net if he wanted to, there was nobody stopping him. As the Rags were...
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