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Friday
Dec142007

Mulling about

DateFriday, December 14, 2007 at 04:43PM

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Seeing that it is the weekend already, I realized I haven't been blogging much. I am juggling a lot of plates this time of year. But the weekend promises mulled wine, good books, and curling up by the fireplace. Wait a sec... I don't have a fireplace! I guess I'll just need to lean in close to the lamp.

I've been reading a lot of short fiction from the Bass Collection (edited by Stephen King) and the New Granta Collection (edited by my literary hero, Richard Ford). So far the Granta has been the better of the two, weighing in at 750+ pages there is a lot to dig into. And the great thing about collections is you can open them anywhere. Classics by Carver and Cheever are mixed with Saunders and Gaitskill (I feel like I am reading a recipe book - add a dash of Munro and stir).

I've also been slogging through Pynchon's, Crying of Lot 49. Any moment now I am going to figure out what the hell is going on. Or so I hope.

So find a good chair, get a good lightbulb that casts some heat, a mug to mull over, and enjoy your weekend. And stay out of the mall!
Cheers.

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i read Lot 49 in university and can't tell you thing one about what it was about. good luck my friend.

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