Frost came first. Then Hugo. Then Roethke. Then Frost again. Twentieth century lyrics absorbed into the same mental jumble of colloquial files, remembered in a stream, resonating slowly as I close the day, welcoming sleep. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening … Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg … The Waking … Stopping By Woods …
A little rain and The Overstory, Richard Powers, 2018. Wow on both counts.
Link — Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe Talk Donald Trump – Arts Intel “Flak Catchers” by François Busnel, based on interviews with Wolfe and Talese in 2017, published by Graydon Carter’s airmail.news. Uncredited photo accompanied airmail.news story online. Excerpts below. Note: This was written and published before the second-term Trump experience. I disagree with Talese’s …
I remember where I attempted to read Tolstoy. It was in a lantern-lit tent at 11,000 feet in the eastern Sierra Nevada while constructing a five-mile section of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1972. We started in July and got snowed out of our 15-man camp at Chicken Spring Lake in October. Our section of …
The last three books I read, by three of my favorite writers, were all pretty thin. They were rewarding in my hands and my head. I didn’t get bored before the end.
For briefly escaping worries about pandemic, politics, water and wildfire, I am thankful for: Patrick O’Brian by day and Longmire by night … … birdwatching and walks in between … … the view west when the smoke has cleared … … fall colors … … company at hand … … and thanks to a delivery …
Waking in the living room at 3 in the morning with the TV still on isn’t so bad when the screenplay is by A.B. Guthrie Jr., from a book by Jack Schaefer, and the scenery includes the Tetons and the Snake River. Two of my favorite actors, Ben Johnson and Jack Palance, are in the …
Neighbor who lives above Orno Creek reports by email this Sunday morning that a black bear climbed over the wall to his back porch at 12:30 a.m. Bear described as “pretty large and very agile.” This report on feral horses in New Mexico and the West came in the New York Times this morning: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/us/on-fate-of-wild-horses-stars-and-ndians-spar.html?hp&_r=0 Continuing …
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