Nic is also burning through Muriel Spark, most recently A Far Cry from Kensington and The Ballad of Peckham Rye. He has also been reading through collections of poems from Robert Hass and Mark Jarman, most recently The Black Riviera, which had moments of touching brilliance and also a number of poems that were a few pages too long, and Time and Materials, which was only okay compared to the excellent Human Wishes. He just got the latest issue of The Point Magazine, and is excited to read this essay from Joey Keegin, which everyone loved, and this one too. McClay open in a tab until getting to it this afternoon, and encourages you to do the same. Four out of five amused chuckles.Ĭhris saw his shadow this morning leaving the house, so the Spark fixation is projected to last at least another six weeks. Its characters discuss endlessly the “only problem”-the problem of suffering, but their actions betray that it might be the problem of love instead. But he is reading Muriel Spark novels as quickly as and in whatever order they come in the mail-most recently The Only Problem, a wry novel that’s mostly about the book of Job, and also a gang of terrorists.
sorry roommates), and How to Be Normal, because his review copy hasn’t arrived yet. The first email will come on Saturday, here in your inbox, and we hope you enjoy it, or at least find it useful.Ĭhris is putting off reading All the King’s Men, because the mood hasn’t struck (sorry G.R. We plan to send an email Wednesday and Saturday: one for your workweek scrolling, and one for your weekend. We’re going to try to live up to that trust. If you’re reading this today, you probably trust one or both of our tastes well enough to have put your email down-thank you. Becoming literate is a lifelong task, but it shouldn’t take your entire day. A few good links, a few regular features-a weekly poem, an upcoming book, a joke, a quote, whatever will be amusing and informative. Nothing too heavy and nothing too boring. Our hope is that it will be something you look forward to. Our goal is fundamentally to deliver a bulletin that is a quick and enjoyable way for you to hear about good and interesting writing and good and interesting books. It doesn’t exist, so its creation has fallen to us. We are two guys who have long wanted a brief, informative newsletter that helps us find new books, essays, and other arcana.
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