Too busy reading to post
In my current stack of things to read / finish reading / start reading / dip into and sample:
- Jonathan Rose’s The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, an excerpt from which I came across and blogged about last year;
- Cole Swensen’s new book of poems, The Book of a Hundred Hands (any poet who sees inspiration for a sequence of poems in John Bulwer’s Chirologia has my attention right away);
- the pseudonymous Rebekah Nathan’s My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student;
- at some point in the future, John Carey’s What Good Are the Arts?, because the Washington Post review intrigued me;
- and, when light reading is in order, P. G. Wodehouse and lots of him.
I’m also getting back into Henry James approximately a decade after reading him in college. That ten-year hiatus seems to have been key. More on this later when I’ve turned my thoughts into some kind of articulate shape.
which Wodehouse is your favorite? I am very fond of Psmith…
I’ve only just gotten into them, actually. I’ve been reading some of the short stories at Project Gutenberg, and I just devoured Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. (But I also have Psmith in the City downloaded from LibriVox for listening to on a free evening.)