- Three by Kafka [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks [HYPERALLERGIC]
- Diane di Prima Digs in San Francisco [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Virginia Woolf’s travel and literary notebook, 1906-09 [BRITISH LIBRARY]
What Are You Reading in September?
I am on something of a reading tear this month, and being on vacation this week means that I’m able to tie up some bookish odds and ends.
Since 1st September, I’ve finished:
- The Pre-Raphaelites by Robert de la Sizeranne
- A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald
- City of Style: Exploring Los Angeles Fashion from Bohemian to Rock by Melissa Magsaysay
- Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
I’m currently reading:
- The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski
To be read by 30th September:
- Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World by Thomas Cahill
- Kahlo by Gerry Souter
- Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert
- The Big Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World’s Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg
- My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
- Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms by Carmela Ciuraru
Which book on your list do you most look forward to finishing?
Please share with me in the comments.
Happy reading!
Daily Diversion #348: Blueberry Pancakes
On Saturday, we had brunch at one of our fave neighborhood restaurants, Valter’s at the Maennerchor. I could eat these every day:

Blueberry pancakes

Blueberry pancakes
Reading is Dreaming

Courtesy of Grammarly
Julien Green on Ink and Paper
“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”-Julien Green
Daily Diversion #347: Lazy Thursday

Lazy Thursday
Susan Sontag on the Archive of Longings
“My library is an archive of longings.”-Susan Sontag
Books in Art: Grace Reading at Howth Bay by Sir William Orpen
An old favorite:

Grace Reading at Howth Bay by Sir William Orpen
Happy Birthday, Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud was born on 4 September 1896. Here he is at 30, looking striking:

Antonin Artaud, 1926
W.G. Sebald on the Art of Writing
“The art of writing is the attempt to contain the teeming black scrawl which everywhere threatens to gain the upper hand, in the interest of maintaining a halfway functional personality.”-W.G. Sebald, A Place in the Country (translation by Jo Catling)