first edition

A few "as new" copies of Fight for Your Long Day's first edition appear to be floating around the web.

and front

Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

Han Kang covers back

 

Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature

 

best friends forever

Rosa Alexandra Johnson

 

Artist Rosa Alexandra Johnson is open for commissioned work.

Old Masters: A Comedy

 

Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters won't disappoint.

Robert Coover

Pricksongs and Descants is the only one I read while he was alive. I believe we discussed "The Babysitter" in a graduate class, and at some later point I saw the film version. The Origin of the Brunists and The Public Burning are his novels I recall most often browsing in bookstores or libraries, and I cannot say why I was never motivated to read them. Rest in peace, Robert Coover.

*In the evening, a social-media post reminded me of Coover's John's Wife. I remember reading its opening yeas ago in a Borders Bookshop. I was impressed.

September reads

In September, in the first time in forever, I had time and inclination to read substantial portions of Harper's Magazine. I had the August and September issues available and less access to other reading that I typically would. From the September issue, Sheila Heti's "The New Age Bible: On the origins of A Course in Miracles" and Tanya Gold's "My Auschwitz Vacation: On Holocaust Tourism" are particularly good. My August issue reads included William T. Vollmann's "Korean Hearts at the DMZ," and I am just now getting into Ellyn Gaydos's "On Stones: Carving in the Granite Capital of the World."