(Sorry, I know this is of no import to anyone but me, I just felt the need to backchannel a little. Literary seemed the best place to put it.)
It is of import. And funny. You totally win.
Mal: And I never back down from a fight. Inara: Yes, you do! You do all the time!
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
hippocampus - May 17, 2012 6:50:07 am PDT #18805 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
sumi - May 17, 2012 6:57:57 am PDT #18806 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
It was funny and you win. . . but she won't ever believe it because that is her weakness.
Kate P. - May 17, 2012 7:16:57 am PDT #18807 of 28333
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jess, thanks for the recs! Press Here looks fantastic, and we actually got the pop-up nursery rhyme book as a Christmas present, though I haven't looked at it yet.
I'm having fun reading a Jeeves & Wooster collection in my spare time these days -- it's just the right level of light & funny and can be put down after 2 or 3 pages without interrupting the flow of the story at all.
JZ - May 17, 2012 7:22:11 am PDT #18808 of 28333
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Two other great short story masters: Dorothy Parker and Flannery O'Connor. Both of whom I've devoured in quantity, but never for a class and I always kind of wished some teacher had actually assigned them, because they are both just bristling with stuff (both ideas and style) that's great to talk and argue about.
Fred Pete - May 17, 2012 7:25:32 am PDT #18809 of 28333
Ann, that's a ferret.
My freshman English professor leaned heavily on Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. I remember them fondly -- a touch of Southern Gothic, but not enough to be inaccessible.
Atropa - May 17, 2012 8:15:29 am PDT #18810 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You know who's short stories should be assigned in school? Saki's. Full of wit, snark, style, and all sorts of class issues to discuss.
javachik - May 17, 2012 10:59:48 am PDT #18811 of 28333
Our wings are not tired.
I am lucky enough to have a taped (a friend taped it from her record back in the mid 1990s for me) copy of Parker reading many of her poems. But the highlight is a complete recording of her reading "Horsie". It's spectacular. And will gut you.
Oh, the glories of the teh interwebs: [link]
A ha this is what Jane taped for me: [link]
Toddson - May 17, 2012 1:14:40 pm PDT #18812 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
ooh ... I had a ollection of Saki's stories when I was young - I remembe loving them. I didn't understand some of them, but I enjoyed the twists.
And for those who like mysteries but don't care of Agatha Christie, there's Dorothy Sayers. For many, the Wimsey crush is inevitable.
Connie Neil - May 17, 2012 1:18:14 pm PDT #18813 of 28333
brillig
The Bunter crush rules all.
edit: And the Dowager Duchess.
Toddson - May 17, 2012 1:24:25 pm PDT #18814 of 28333
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Oh, yes!