the world is full of tellers

the Farnsworth House is under water

strange humidity clouds

There’s nothing that you can’t pour Paul Roger over—breakfast cereal, whatever

gossipy goodness about David Chang, which I so want to add to but will refrain

Esquire's list of 75 books all men should read:

The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain Affliction, by Russell Banks All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren American Pastoral, by Philip Roth American Tabloid, by James Ellroy Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text, by William Faulkner The Autobiography of Malcolm X Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Call of the Wild, White Fang, & To Build a Fire, by Jack London Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella, by George Saunders A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole The Continental Op, by Dashiell Hammett The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Deliverance, by James Dickey Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac Dispatches, by Michael Herr Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone Dubliners, by James Joyce A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir, by Frederick Exley For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway Going Native, by Stephen Wright A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, by Studs Terkel The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002), by John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara The Known World, by Edward P. Jones Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families, by James Agee Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie Moby Dick, by Herman Melville The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer Native Son, by Richard Wright One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey Plainsong, by Kent Haruf The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene The Professional, by W. C. Heinz Rabbit Run, by John Updike Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren Bradley, by John McPhee The Shining, by Stephen King Slaughterhouse-five, by Kurt Vonnegut So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron A Sport And a Pastime, James Salter The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carré The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction, Tim O'Brien This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff Time’s Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense, by Martin Amis Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry Underworld, by Don DeLillo War And Peace, by Leo Tolstoy What It Takes: The Way to the White House, by Richard Ben Cramer What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories, by Raymond Carver The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson Winter’s Bone: A Novel, Daniel Woodrell Winter’s Tale, by Mark Helprin Women, by Charles Bukowski

upside down apple cake, yum

A lot of these books are about killing and/or dying. No Raymond Chandler, but an interesting list.

you typed that whole list? dang.

there are so many on the list i have NOT read. (which i copied and pasted, btw) ...just counted and i've only read 25 of them.

today's magnum pictures on slate are a nice bunch: http://todayspictures.slate.com/20080917/

I've read 31 of them that I remember. But, in fairness, probably 10 of those were in school and I had to read them (Updike, Roth, etc.) And I've started Underworld about a dozen times at your actual abode, but never got far for some reason.