“non omnia possumus omnes: We cannot all do everything. Virgil, Eclogue VIII”
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Go Down, Moses
William Faulkner“I try and read this annually, as I used to The Sun Also Rises and The Importance of Being Earnest, and used also to read The Bear to my youngest son (my favorite chapter) up to the...” more »
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens“I return to Stevens more than to any other poet (I think I'm channeling my old mentor Harold Bloom), especially the long late poems, The Auroras of Autumn, An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,...” more »
The Rings of Saturn
Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald“What an astonishing experience. I deliberately slowed my first reading of this book in order to savor it but also knew I was missing much of the intertextuality of its seemingly simple...” more »
Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel Proust“I'm at the final book of this astonishing novel and will probably begin anew when I finish. What a journey! I took several years to read it, allowing myself to read normally in my...” more »
