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Fuck yeah Andy, let's do this

Pleased to announce that after six years of searching, I've finally acquired a copy of MacDonald Harris's "Mortal Leap". I'm hoarding it forever.

Yes?? Yes!!

Reading up on the professional literature

"I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly good book shows, it is bound to make you feel small--like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you."

why did 2016 have to take The Toast away and give us back HTMLGIANT?

"She got some shitty poem by Rumi and read it to me. 'There is a candle in your heart...' I laughed, and she asked me why I was laughing. I said, you small-minded bitch, you think that is poetry? Of all Rumi's goddamned poems, you pick that one? Did you find it in some psych-nonsense anthology? That has to be his worst poem, and it isn't even translated well. How does it feel to wade around in life so hopelessly?"

I'm so sorry to all the dozens of users who have ever sat in my "friend requests" bin for months at a time before I ever even looked at them. I'm terrible.

"She was; she became; she became nothing."

Me as basically Hannibal Lector: Hello, Clarice...

What's your most under-appreciated review, the one that you particularly enjoy how it turned out that everyone else ignored? Let's share them.

On my second reading. Good poetry deserves to be read twice.

New Richard Siken, new Nell Zink, and new (old) Renata Adler is making this the best summer reading ever.

In Boston. One day I will finish a book

Having too many books is never a problem until it's time to move.

She blows my mind

I'm in such a reading slump, I'm slogging through Moby Dick even though I feel like I would love it ordinarily, so I tried to read The Second Sex, (who knew that taking a break from a 550 page book by reading an 800 page book was a bad idea?) And I even had to put down my 200 page poetry collection. Arghh. I need fixing

Ishmael and Queequeg: America's manliest romance

This may be my favorite book that I've never finished. I'm going to try this again and all I can say is BRING IT HERMAN