Books and Good Titles

Flannery O’Connor

I would like to borrow from one of you people these books: The Golden Compass and Love in the Time of Cholrea. Either that or I need to find a branch of the library near my house. The only library near my work, ironically, is the big famous Fifth Avenue library with the lions out front — which does not let you take out books!

I finished Flannery O’Connor’s short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find. It’s pretty damn good, if a bit ponderous. Coen Brothers movies remind me of her stories — everything is creepy and eccentric and slow. Also, they all start with quirky, funny character descriptions — but then somehow [...]

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The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
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