Compare with this entry to get a sense of what I’ve read over the last year or so. As before, entries in bold are books I’ve read; entries in italics are books I’ve started or read a portion of. – Beowulf Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart Agee, James – A Death in the Family [...]
If you are out there, if you exist, please keep the ones I love safe in their nests of sleep.
I’ve been programming my ass off for the last week or so. I designed and now maintain an online repository for recent Sarah Lawrence grads to share their thesis projects, and as with all such misadventures of mine, it started as a simple idea and has since expanded into a full-featured carnival. The basic idea [...]
Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization. Bederman explores the invention of “masculinity” (as opposed to “manhood”) at the beginning of the twentieth century, and its relationship to race. Fascinating book. WEB DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk. If you haven’t read it, read it. Hamilton Holt and Werner Sollors, The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as [...]
For those of you who have email accounts at somniloquy.org, I probably should have told you long ago: somniloquy.org does not permit email from the Evite corporation. All Evites are returned to sender. There are a number of reasons for this: Evite does not permit a way for users to opt out of receiving any [...]