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i think it's probably too "dark" for US parents, kids like all kinds of dark stuff

i haven't read it, just assuming based on context

sorry yeah thats what i meant

also i think it assumes/requires a certain baseline of knowledge about england and the english civil war that american kids wont have

god, warlock is so good

Can someone tell me where I can find these books again?

where do you usually find books?

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.

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

I love this series.

spent way too much money on that sale yesterday :-/ also i appear to have signed myself up for the six month subscription

Just about all of Victor Serge now in print

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.

ive heard theres a bookstore in cobble hill that has a nice selection

If only I could remember where that place was.

gd i wish i didnt have to pay rent

didn't know there was an nyrb edition, but jean stafford's the mountain lion is an awesome, creepy book and is on sale.

http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classics/the-mountain-lion/

seriously why is my cats food like $70

haha i know i am just lalala pretending that sale isn't happening btw

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/ $$$$

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

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/ $$$$

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i just paid $40 in late fees for library books. :( i am a deadbeat and only finished half of them, too.

i havent taken anything out of the library since the summer because i have $24.56 in late fees

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)

sorry about stupid typos

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.

She does defy it, and she's scary, but o shit, where Stafford takes her and the reader, the ending o shit

paging scott seward btw; have you read jean stafford? i think you would enjoy jean stafford.

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?

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.

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

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

Don't know Blackwood's work, is it good?

The one I read was good, and others here have repped for some of the others.

Oh yeah, now I see mention of Great Granny Webster, what's the writing like?

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.

Please do! I'll look around online when not so lazy.

Yeah, Blackwood is witty and funny and often pretty dark, too. Good stuff.

Forgot to mention the darkness. Enjoying first pages of Corrigan. May stick with it

'an ermine in czernopol' is just really, really good

anyone read Hav, the Jan Morris travel fiction thing that they have forthcoming. Usually enjoy morris, am tempted.

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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

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.

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)

reading the sheckley story collection right now, very fun

Patrick Hamilton is so much one of my favourite writers

from http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/bookexpo-america.html

I also discovered that, starting this fall, N.Y.R.B. is launching a new e-book-only imprint, made up of literary novels and books in translation singled out by the writer Sue Halpern. “Our logic is very simple,” Halpern writes. “Since, as the argument goes, it is too risky and expensive to bring out these sorts of books, we will take advantage of digital’s lower costs to expand the reading universe.” The first three offerings will be Lindsay Clarke’s “The Water Theatre” (September); Zena el Khalil’s “Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir” (October), and Yoram Kaniuk’s “1948” (November). The project is one answer to the lament about print’s demise; think of what’s now possible in the cheaper e-book form.

Patrick Hamilton is so much one of my favourite writers

Me too, and I think I first heard of him on ILB.

That ebook thing sounds excellent.

Anybody get Ride a Cockhorse? The original novel was published in '91.

I've ordered it, but it hasn't come in yet--looks good, though