I’m returning to Lafayette tomorrow. I have moving to do, and I’d like to write (maybe) the last 75 or so pages of my novel so I can give a full draft of it to my advisor at the end of August. It’s been a good summer, but I think I might shut the blog down soon and do my blogging once a week or so at the Sycamore Review.
The new book of essays by Charles Baxter is now available.
Update: I highly recommend these essays. Baxter is one of my favorite writers, and I think part of the reason is that he has such a quiet-yet-confident and witty tone, which he makes good use of in these essays. Plus, like Burning Down the House, he’s articulating fairly advanced stuff, creating nomenclature if need be.
From BBC:
“An ambitious project to create an online catalogue of every book in every language ever published is under way. Public goodwill is not in doubt, but some libraries remain to be convinced.”
From BBC:
“Instead of Spiderman or Bratz dolls, children in the US could soon be clutching a talking Jesus toy, a bearded Moses or a muscle-bound figure of Goliath.
“From the middle of August, Wal-Mart, the biggest toy retailer in the US, will for the first time stock a full line of faith-based toys.”
