The name Vachel Lindsay appears a dozen times in The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick, trying to remember which section in particular struck me when I was reading it last year. Think it was something to do with Robert Frost.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 August 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
found a lovely paperback of antal szerb's the pendragon legend, with what i believe are called, er, "french flaps". so far it's quite gentle, erudite and funny. terrific translation, you'd never know.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 25 August 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
Pere Ubu the Scrapbookblooming nice collectio9n of press reprints lyrics and things.do wish somebody would write a full biography dedicated to them and covering the Cleveland scene. But thi sis a nice thing to have.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
pleasingly one of pere ubu's songs is based on a vachel lindsey poem (=the voice of the sand)
This is the voice of sandThe sailors understandThere is far more sea than sandThere is far more sea than landYo ho yo ho yo ho (ho)
― mark s, Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Now if we could only discover Vachel Lindsay's connection to Kevin Bacon...
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
2nd hand racks:
Italo Svevo - As a Man Grows OlderHaldor Laxness - The Fish can SingAntonio Tabucchi - Tristano DiesMarie Darrieussecq - My Phantom Husband
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 2 September 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
i am finally reading tristram shandy (tho i bought it years ago)
― mark s, Monday, 2 September 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
Russell Hoban - Riddley WalkerHerman Melville - Moby Dick
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Monday, 2 September 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
Sold about 25 books at Powell's Books a couple of days ago, then came home with:
Five Tang Poets, David Young (translator), paperback, $7.95.Less Than Angels, Barbara Pym, mass market paperback, $3.95.At Freddie's, Penelope Fitzgerald, trade paperback, $4.95.Froissart's Chronicles, used Penguin paperback, $1.Fong and the Indians, Paul Theroux, used mass market, $1.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 2 September 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
I went to Hay on Wye and now I am broken,broke and divorced.
― Tim, Sunday, 8 September 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Was trying to buy the new Henry Cow by Benjamin Piekut but it seems to be appearing on the 27th. is that a delay on the paperback
― Stevolende, Sunday, 8 September 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
xp Read that as "Ham on Wye".
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 8 September 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
I think this has to be the be
Sold about 25 books at Powell's Books a couple of days ago, then came home with:/Five Tang Poets/, David Young (translator), paperback, $7.95./Less Than Angels/, Barbara Pym, mass market paperback, $3.95./At Freddie's/, Penelope Fitzgerald, trade paperback, $4.95./Froissart's Chronicles/, used Penguin paperback, $1./Fong and the Indians/, Paul Theroux, used mass market, $1.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
Picked up Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth from someone's stoop who was giving it away.
― o. nate, Monday, 9 September 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
my recent finds (for the most part) skewing very much mid-twentieth century & english:
josephine tey - the franchise affairelizabeth taylor - complete short storiesjocelyn brooke - the orchid trilogyanthony powell - a dance to the music of timewilliam gerhardie - the polyglots
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 08:06 (four years ago) link
Dirk DeWachter: the art of buying unhappyHe’s awesome.
― nathom, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
extremely late 19th century lately
- the portrait of a lady - h james- sentimental education (in French!) - flaubert- house of mirth (1905 ok, ok)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
xpost Nice score on the Gerhardie, don't often see his books s/h (in the UK, anyway)
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Broken Stars anthologyLucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning WomenArthur C. Clarke - The City and the StarsTomas Transtromer - The Great EnigmaI read some wonderful (translated) TT poems in a New Yorker essay, soon after he won the Nobel, and people who over here were saying Who is that man: he seemed like a true Transtromer, and thanks for reminding me to read some more.Mean to finally catch up with The City and the Stars and Broken Stars too. Berlin collection is one of my all-time-space fave raves: the way she places and shines a window between fiction and non-fiction, if there's any fiction in there at all---stuff I assumed she made up about her life turned out to be verified, but then again it's the telling, in any case. Coming from the way she experienced it: like she mentions the time and place out West frequented by her and a ripe bunch of other citizens (and others, maybe) of all ages, who would party all around bands that were like big ol' recombinant jukeboxes, reflecting the mix of the crowd, incl. moods and other tides--she never heard anything like the bands at this particular joint afterwards, until she got to New York and caught the Ornette Coleman Quartet.Vachel Lindsay's poems seem better for performance than on the page, like a lot of Poe--VL was associated with the Chautauqua arts & entertainment circuit, I think--favorably mentioned by Allen Ginsberg, and good 'un by xpost Pere Ubu yeah.
― dow, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
"Better for performance than on the page," but then again you can hear them as you read them.
― dow, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
dow, were those kindle daily deals? i bought all those there.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Bought Fitting Pieces to The Jigsaw the book on Dr Strangely Strange cos I found out I could get a further discount on Book depositary stuff a couple of weeks back. Heard about it in either teh Monthly mainstream rock mags or Ugly THings a coupl eo fmonths back.Quite like Kip of the Serenes and probably oughta have Heavy petting.
bought Buddy Guy autobiography and a biography of Sam Phillips on sunday.
Got a copy of the Marquis de sade book a couple of weeks ago in a mass purchase from a local 2nd hand/remainder shop's anniversary sale.alongside a book on the 85 ways to tie a tie by Thoams Fink & Yong MaoCowboys & Indies the book on record companies by Gareth MurphyThe Vatican cellars by Andre GideThe Big Oyster A Molluscular History of New York by Mark Kurlansky
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
THat is the Grove Press version of Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and other Writings to be specific
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
dow, were those kindle daily deals? i bought all those there.No, these are the only kindle books I have (via free app on my laptop, but after using it for work I can't stand to read for pleasure on a screen, turns out):
Shots From The Hip: Notes From the Counterculture by Charles Shaar Murray (got it after reading interviews etc in mark s anthology A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, In the Words of Those Who Were There).Atomsk by Carmichael (AKA Cordwainer) Smith (early Cold War thriller). Sleep Donation by Karen Smith (contemporary speculative etc fiction; she's one of my favorites).
These are all ebook-only, apparently, so I hope I'll get to where I can stand to read for pleasure on a screen.
― dow, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
Maybe try an actual Kindle. I find the reading experience more pleasant than a laptop or tablet screen.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Seems that an actual Kindle, with a smaller screen, might be--different, for better or worse---which version of it do you like?
― dow, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
I guess a smaller device would be handier, and maybe more personal, since you could take it around---?
― dow, Thursday, 7 November 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
Kindle you can slip in a lot of jacket pockets
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
I've only used an older version of Kindle, but I don't think the screens have changed too much. It's a different experience and I find it less fatiguing to read an e-ink screen than a regular screen. It's that aspect I like more than the size.
― o. nate, Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Yes. As well as less possibility of distraction from Intranetz/ILX/email checking etc. Also I have a lot of stuff on there after all these years so the ability to search everything on the device is useful.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 November 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Highly recommend the old, smaller kindle oasis if you can find a cheap one on eBay or wherever. It’s very light, has a great screen and BUTTONS, plus it displays bootlegged epubs quite nicely. I use it to read bootlegs of the paper books I’m reading in bed, so I can read in the dark after my partner’s gone to sleep.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:40 (four years ago) link
today:
eric thacker/anthony earnshaw - musrum/wintersolalan burns - europe after the rain (old school calder pb edition for $3!)
re gerhardi(e) availability: i guess there must have been a vogue for his work in nz at some point since i've found his stuff in all three of the secondhand places i tend to patronise... granted it's always the same few works in each case (though one currently does have his history of the romanovs & the pop psych book he co-authored in the thirties)
― no lime tangier, Friday, 8 November 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
Anyone read dopesick? Tempted.
― nathom, Friday, 8 November 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
Yesterday I bought a copy of ULYSSES: THE CORRECTED TEXT which is no longer easy to obtain ... for £1.90!
Best book bargain I've found in years.
― the pinefox, Friday, 8 November 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
futurist manifestoscendrars - selected writingsjarry - the supermale/selected works
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 8 December 2019 06:50 (four years ago) link
Agatha Christie: THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD.
― the pinefox, Monday, 9 December 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
I haven't posted on this thread for months. These are some of my newcomers, all purchased used:
A Book of Common Prayer, Joan Didion, hardcover Book Club edition, $1.Amnesia Moon, Jonathan Lethem, trade paperback, $1.The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann, translator: Woods, hardcover ex libris in Everyman's edition, $1.A Coffin for Demetrios, Eric Ambler, trade paperback, $2.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
I've read the first two!
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
Amnesia Moon is my favorite Lethem novel, not counting the Omega the Unknown comic.
last few monthsAgatha Christie - An AutobiographyPlato - Five DialoguesThe Song of Roland
ebooksArthur C. Clarke - The Collected Stories ofFriedrich - City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
― wasdnuos (abanana), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Last few months:
Anna Kavan - Sleep has his HousePierre Michon - Small LivesThe Ruba'iyta of Omar KhayyamElena Ferrante - Troubling LoveThomas Bernhard - On the Mountain
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Trauma and MemoryThe body keeps the scoreWqnt to process 2019 aka shit year
― nathom, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Is there a 'best' english translation of the Rubaiyat? I've heard the FitzGerald version is very loose.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Tristan Gooley wild signs and star paths.Though would probably have got another copy of the Walkers guide by him cos I think it would have been more immediate to the reader it was meant for. Might keep this and give her something else now that I started it. Will see if FOPP have any of his.
Finton O'toole heroic failure.Irish political writers book on Brexit and the mentality behind it. Thought I'd see if he could make any more sense of it.This was from last year so far from up to date. He's started off talking about bits being extremely arrogant when people were originally trying to set up the common market in ghe early 60s. Being totally dismissive of the project etc.Well might make some sense as background.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
machines in the head: selected short writing of anna kavanmedea's charms: selected shorter writing of ithell colquhoun
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
The FitzGerald is very loose, but having read Borges wonderful essay on it, I'm OK with it being the version I have.https://www.gwern.net/docs/borges/1951-borges-theenigmaofedwardfitzgerald.pdf
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 19 December 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
After publically stating on ILB my New Year resolution to read more books than I buy in 2020, today I bought copies of:
Maigret in Montmartre, Georges Simenon, used mass market paperback, $1.The Bachelors, Muriel Spark, used trade paperback, $2.An Unsuitable Attachment, Barbara Pym, used mass market paperback, $1.
Books I have finished so far in 2020: zero.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:52 (four years ago) link
Not a good or worthy resolution tbh.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:53 (four years ago) link
Just buy the books that’s half the fun
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 3 January 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
The Beautiful Ones the Prince cowrite. It was 1/2 price in Waterstones.
Several other things that will come back to me later.
― Stevolende, Friday, 3 January 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
Kindle deals in the UK is currently a list a thousand books long what with Christmas. in the last week I've picked up
the owl servicethe penelopiadAmerican gods (some 4 story compilation thing)
and rescued "the haunting of hill house" from my teenage bedroom
― koogs, Friday, 3 January 2020 05:38 (four years ago) link