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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: May 2011
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Bloglette: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary. 2010, Little, Brown and Company. So it was with delight, then, that I turned to Sedaris's first. Work of published fiction in over fifteen years, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk. Share is the very kernel of what makes Sedaris so lovable: his seemingly endless supply of hilarity. Does: introduces...
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: New Year Review 2
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Friday, December 31, 2010. New Year Review 2. What I Read in 2010. Another year has come to a close, and again I find myself saddened that the list of books I read this year is shorter than the preceding year (albeit by only a handful). 01 Making Your Own Days. By Kenneth Koch (poetry manual). 02 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 31 (literary magazine). 03 McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets.
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: A Cog in Something Turning
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Friday, April 22, 2011. A Cog in Something Turning. 2004, Hodder and Stoughton. Earlier this summer I was reminded of that then-forgotten note when I picked up two things more or less simultaneously: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. From the library and the new issue of the Paris Review. For my boyfriend because of a new story by Geek Love. As you may recall from my blog entry. On it, Jacob de Zoet.
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: Entertaining Instruction
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The Best American Short Stories 2010. Edited by Heidi Pitlor and Richard Russo. 2010, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This year's collection is unique in that the best piece of writing it features is guest editor Richard Russo's introduction to the volume. My experience with Russo is limited. In high school I read his Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls. Demonstrates this backlash clearly).
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: Take my wife. Please!
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Thursday, January 27, 2011. Take my wife. Please! About halfway through Mr. Peanut. A mysterious hitman named Mobius remarks to the detective investigating a murder that he hates movies. What do you hate about them? In good films, particularly thrillers like those by Hitchcock, Sam Peckinpah. One eagerly anticipates the revelation of each bit of narrative trickery as one is exhilarated by the completion ...
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: iPod People
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Friday, November 19, 2010. This marks the second guest blog that Pygmies and Peanut Butter has hosted. I am thrilled to invite my friend MB to share her thoughts on Gary Shteyngart's dystopian-ish. Super Sad True Love Story. You can find our last guest blog entry by extrachrisb on the classic. Super Sad True Love Story. 2010, Random House. Eunice, Lenny's object of desire, is a young, attractive Korean-A...
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: Turning Japanese
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Monday, August 30, 2010. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. 2010, Random House. Whenever I am in an indie bookstore, I try to buy a book, any book, to make up for the numerous titles I record in my cellphone's notepad feature for further investigation. Some time ago one such title was David Mitchell's. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Is an amazing book. The plot centers around a red-headed Dut...
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: April 2011
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Saturday, April 30, 2011. Occasionally I like to indulge in a bit of fluff from the past that offers very little beyond stylistic derring-do. Like watching old film noirs. Or listening to Whitney Houston. Or Preston Sturges could have made Sullivan's Travels. And turn it into New York, New York. Is to plunder something special, something earnest, and make it a false artifact. There is a sly knowingne...
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: Don't Feed the Bears
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Saturday, May 8, 2010. Don't Feed the Bears. Last Night in Twisted River. 2009, Random House. My senior year of high school, I took Advanced Placement English with a teacher I had had earlier in my education. During that earlier class, this teacher had said some complimentary things that served as a much-needed confidence boost for my adolescent self. A Prayer for Owen Meany. The World According to Garp.
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter: The Days of Losing Touch
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Pygmies and Peanut Butter. Reading begets reading begets reading. Readers beget readers too, I think. Thursday, August 5, 2010. The Days of Losing Touch. A Visit from the Goon Squad. 2010, Alfred A. Knopf. Some years ago, I devoted a week to poring through the Eggers-edited. Best American Nonrequired Reading. Now, years later, I remembered this story when Egan's name appeared again: in a review for her new novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. These two characters, Bennie and Sascha, are the main characters...
