December 2011 Reading List: Turtle Island, Michael Chabon, Percival Everett

Matt Borondy is reading two poetry books: Turtle Island by Gary Snyder and our music editor Anna-Lynne’s new one. Plus some techie e-books. And Gary Shteyngart. (That’s right, I spelled his name without looking.) And this new “graphic biography” called The Zen of Steve Jobs — if it gets here on time.Matthew Tiffany is reading Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station.Robert Birnbaum is reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, The Drop by Michael Connelly, The Harbor by Ernest  Poole, The Imperial Messenger by Belen Fernandez, Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville, Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot, Blood Meridien by Cormac McCarthy, Bloodland by Alan Glynn, and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward.Hilarie Ashton is reading Bill Bryson’s At Home: A Short History of Private Life andPercival Everett‘s Damned if I Do. Ready to start Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music. James Warner is reading Peter Orner’s Love and Shame and Love, Olga Slavnikova’s 2017, John Diamond’s The CIA and the Culture of Failure.

"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
Mark Twain

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Fast fact about writing

Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities.