I was not designed by nature for appointments at eight in the morning, especially not on less than two hours' sleep, but I feel smug that I used the remainder of the morning to meet up with
a_reasonable_man at his office, visit a used book store in Harvard Square, and make a grocery run through Stop & Shop. I came home with copies of ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003), Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone (1998), Boston Noir ed. Dennis Lehane (2009), and Gail Scott's Heroine (1987), plus a pile of groceries, and then I tried to work and instead fell asleep for three hours. I spent the rest of my evening proofreading. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of Marc Abrahams: "An ode to the view of Boston from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge."
2. Courtesy of
spatch: "Patriotic Lobsters: An American Mystery."
3. Everyone who has never heard Robert Black performing Tom Johnson's "Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass," please take nine minutes out of your life right now. "Or, putting it another way, I will probably succeed in failing to succeed . . ."
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1. Courtesy of Marc Abrahams: "An ode to the view of Boston from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge."
2. Courtesy of
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3. Everyone who has never heard Robert Black performing Tom Johnson's "Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass," please take nine minutes out of your life right now. "Or, putting it another way, I will probably succeed in failing to succeed . . ."