do they reproduce the secret message inside the covers??
― thomp, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 7:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes!
― max, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
it seems so weird that that could be a book that could need specialist republishing, or even go out of print
― thomp, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 01:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know--in the UK it's pretty much constantly in print (though as a children's book)
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
it might be a little "dark" for US kids? i dunno
― max, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
that being said i liked it at a lot at 26, probably would have liked it even more at 13
i think it's probably too "dark" for US parents, kids like all kinds of dark stuff
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
i haven't read it, just assuming based on context
sorry yeah thats what i meant
― max, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
also i think it assumes/requires a certain baseline of knowledge about england and the english civil war that american kids wont have
― max, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, warlock is so good
― JoeStork, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can someone tell me where I can find these books again?
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
where do you usually find books?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 12 February 2012 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a place called Book Court on Court Street in Cobble Hill that I go to now and again, I wonder if they might have a volume or two.
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 06:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nybooks.com/books/wintersale/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Winter+Sale+2012&utm_content=Winter+Sale+2012+Version+B+CID_4e5028b3d486472c305c3d2b5cfb5a71&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_term=Shop+Now
― inspector george gentlyfallingblood (c sharp major), Saturday, 25 February 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love this series.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 February 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
spent way too much money on that sale yesterday :-/ also i appear to have signed myself up for the six month subscription
― max, Saturday, 25 February 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just about all of Victor Serge now in print
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i went to city lights when i visited SF last month and they've got a whole section devoted to these. had trouble restraining myself from buying 10 of them.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
ive heard theres a bookstore in cobble hill that has a nice selection
― max, Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
If only I could remember where that place was.
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 February 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
gd i wish i didnt have to pay rent
― 99x (Lamp), Sunday, 26 February 2012 03:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
didn't know there was an nyrb edition, but jean stafford's the mountain lion is an awesome, creepy book and is on sale.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/the-mountain-lion/
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
seriously why is my cats food like $70
― a life ___________ (Lamp), Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i know i am just lalala pretending that sale isn't happening btw
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was gonna say go to libraries or something, but then I realized I always return my books late so that doesn't really help w/ $$$$
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
books are like one of the few things i think are really worth spending money on but i already spent soo much money this month on like sweaters and plane tickets
― a life ___________ (Lamp), Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:14 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just paid $40 in late fees for library books. :( i am a deadbeat and only finished half of them, too.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
i havent taken anything out of the library since the summer because i have $24.56 in late fees
― a life ___________ (Lamp), Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was thinking about The Mountain Lion while reading the recently revived Harper's thread. Back in the 80s, when Michael Kinsley was editing it (and well!), James Wolcott wrote about Stafford, who I (and all the people I mentioned the article to) had forgotten mostly forgotten about. To us, she was mostly the wife whose nose was broken twice by hubby Robert Lowell, as graphically described in Ian Hamilton's Lowell bio.Stafford also got some material, for both fiction and poetry, I think out of those experiences; don't know Lowell's confessional verses go that far, but he also became literally a textbook example of bipolarity)Nevertheless, Wolcott got us into The Mountain Lion, Boston Adventure (novel), and I still need to read the non-fiction A Mother In History, Stafford's encounters with Lee Harvey's mom. Way later, an interviewer mentioned this column, and Wocott said people were still thanking him for it. As well they might. the main character of The Mountain Lion seems like somebody you might never want to bother having compassion for, but she compells it, a sympathetic sub-villain (maybe like Lowell to her? Although she did get the hell out--the mother in Boston Adventure is somewhat similar)
― dow, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry about stupid typos
― dow, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've never read Boston Adventure! i should check it out. i think of Molly as a character that defies any attempt at readerly sentimental identification, but i don't know if she's a villain, exactly. she's terrifying.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
She does defy it, and she's scary, but o shit, where Stafford takes her and the reader, the ending o shit
― dow, Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
paging scott seward btw; have you read jean stafford? i think you would enjoy jean stafford.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I saw The Mountain Lion at my local bookstore last year and didn't buy it -- a mistake. Should I start with that one or BA?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hard to say--The Mountain Lion is shorter, not as dense, which might be good or bad; you can't forage for so many consolation prizes if you get tired of the main line of development. Boston Adventure starts like its title suggests, oh a plucky underdog's gonna make it after all. Might have some tense moments, but some wry me resolutions, not so unusual then. Probably got into some school libraries that way. But it keeps tunneling into, for instance, scenes with a mental mother, very convincing, beyond standard coming of age etc novels then; It's not only about such relationships, doesn't settle even for them, though could have, re merited reviewer-bait.
― dow, Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, and here's an description, for non-subscribers like me, of a Stafford collection's title story:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1948/02/21/1948_02_21_023_TNY_CARDS_000214532
― dow, Sunday, 26 February 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Weirdly, all 3 of Lowell's ex-wives are now published by NYRB: Jean Stafford, Caroline Blackwood, Elizabeth Hardwick. All 3 are really great writers, too
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 26 February 2012 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't know Blackwood's work, is it good?
― dow, Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The one I read was good, and others here have repped for some of the others.
― Why Does Redd People Never Want To Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, now I see mention of Great Granny Webster, what's the writing like?
― dow, Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Remember it being witty and funny, byt it was a while ago, I couldn't tell you more. Maybe I should read this copy of Corrigan sitting right here.
― Why Does Redd People Never Want To Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Please do! I'll look around online when not so lazy.
― dow, Sunday, 4 March 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Blackwood is witty and funny and often pretty dark, too. Good stuff.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Forgot to mention the darkness. Enjoying first pages of Corrigan. May stick with it
― Why Does Redd People Never Want To Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
'an ermine in czernopol' is just really, really good
― Lamp, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone read Hav, the Jan Morris travel fiction thing that they have forthcoming. Usually enjoy morris, am tempted.
― you don't exist in the database (woof), Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:00 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
just read this, really enjoyed it. its actually two books in one -- one set in 1985 and one in 2005 -- the first is better but the second works fine as a companion piece
― max, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, I gotta have Hav. The travel non-fiction I've read was rich, dense but very clear, very careful, with no hesitation.Comes from climbing all those mountains, incl the ones w streets. Also liked Conundrum, re the sex change. Haven't read the pre-op, Desmond era adventures, but I better.
― dow, Monday, 14 May 2012 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lethem praises Patrick Hamilton's NYRB editions in current Rolling Stone, mentions that Hamilton provided the basis of Hitchcock's Gaslight and Rope (the latter with a little help from Leopold and Loeb, or so I assumed)
― dow, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
reading the sheckley story collection right now, very fun
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 25 May 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink