Rip David Foster Wallace. I tried to finish Infinite Jest. The world is less because we don’t have more writers like this.
I got a job at the American Composers Alliance to take care of file cabinets full of info on composers. Not sure exactly what I’m going to be able to bring to the table. Hopefully I’ll have set duties.
I finished Beloved by Toni Morrison and No Good Turn by Kate Atkinson.
I need to start an assignment for school. I’m writing about the American Libraries Association’s stance on independent libraries in Cuba. These libraries are being prosecuted and the operators imprisoned. Apparently, all ALA has to do is publicly “denounce” this. Others say that this is not enough. It shouldn’t take too long to write this assignment.
I am now reading Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. It is about a man in NYC in the years after 9/11, whose wife has left him and he seeks out cricket adventures. I really like it so far. I am also reading Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano, another writer who left us too soon. It is a book of short stories and of course I love it.
I’m getting my mac today I think.
