One letter at a time: Noam Chomsky

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Showing posts with label Noam Chomsky. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

And now, your moment of Zen

Watch Chomsky's sales skyrocket!

UPDATE, 9/21: Told you so.

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Passing thought

[The novel] is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience... For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so many kinds of interaction between humans, and so many ways of creating patterns in the novel that can’t be created in a short story, a play, a poem or a movie. The novel, simply, offers more opportunities for a reader to understand the world better, including the world of artistic creation. That sounds pretty grand, but I think it’s true. -- Don DeLillo

Recent Reads - 2011

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Silence by Shusaku Endo
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
Pricksongs & Descants by Robert Coover
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Recent Reads - 2007

The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
Madeleine by Andre Gide
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Allan Sillitoe
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Living End by Stanley Elkin
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World by Paul Collins
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Grendel by John Gardner
Going Native by Stephen Wright
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Whores for Gloria by William T. Vollmann
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Recent Reads - 2006

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers
On With The Story: Stories by John Barth
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Out of the Woods: Stories by Chris Offutt
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe
The Sea by John Banville
M31: A Family Romance by Stephen Wright
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Everyman by Philip Roth
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Black Hole by Charles Burns
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink by David Margolick
Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Mao II by Don DeLillo
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth