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david — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:14:38 +0000

Hey All. Thought I’d list some new books I’ve read (new to me) that I think are worth the time. Prep–Curitis Sittenfeld, The Girl Who Played With Fire (great thriller), The Human Stain (how does Roth go so high and so low so quickly?), The Anatomy Lesson (as before).

speaking of faith

david — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:16:57 +0000

well, the segment of Speaking Of Faith with yours truly aired again recently. Thanks for all the kind and cool comments from many many people. I SHOULD say (so I will) and I SHOULD say because everyone’s praise makes it all the more apparent: I am perhaps the smallest and wobbliest wheel in the Ojibwe language revitalization movement. Truly. The folks at Niigane at Leech Lake. Waadookodaading at LCO. My older brother Anton, John Nichols, Dan and Dennis Jones, many many others–they are the real workers. I do my best and I also publicize their efforts. So there. If thanks are to be given, thank them.

Other than that–it is my sincerest goal to write the most impersonal, cleanest, non-prurient blog possible. Gosh, I mean, people READ these. Hats off the braver bloggers among us.

Casinos

david — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:10:24 +0000

Hi All,

Just back from Cambridge, MA where we launched the New Literary History of America. It was great–the reception of the book is beyond belief (I believe it–having worked onit and having seen the talent behind and in it).

Also–check my travel pieces at Slate.com about Indian Casinos.

And if you STILL have time, I wrote a piece special to the LA TIMES about ANTI-HEROES.

New Literary History of America

david — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:06:49 +0000

if you just can’t get enough (literature, that is) check out the New Literary History of America edited by Werner Sollors and Greil Marcus (and yours truly among others). it will be around for a long time. beautiful AND deeeeep.

We’re back and we’re bad

david — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:20:42 +0000

Well, after much technical difficulty the blog is back. Whew. Now the world can breathe.

Let’s see–I”ve got a new piece in the LA TIMES: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jul/05

What else? Finished another novel. What else else? Traveled all over the place last spring: NY, Boulder, New Jersey . . . . met some great folks along the way. Now I am back, and writing like mad. Will finish the non-fiction book on reservation life one of these days soon. By soon I mean in shorter time than it took Proust to complete Remembrance of Things Past.

Cheers, D

top ten lists of books by writers (dead) and writers (alive)

david — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:09:39 +0000

here is the list of top 10 books by dead writers, books one cannot do without, books one must read to get into heaven (or whatever you call it) no particular order:

1. Lolita
2. Pale Fire
3. Remembrance of Things Past
4. Zeno’s Conscience
5. Senility (or Emilio’’s Carnival)
6. If on a Winter’’s Night a Traveler
7. Collected Stories of Raymond Carver
8. Mrs Dalloway
9. The Group
10. Austerlitz

Ton ten books by NOT dead people:

1. The Time of Our Singing
2. The Emperor’s Children (I know, I know–but it really is that good)
3. Austerlitz (Sebald is, in my mind, sort of dead and sort of not)
4. Geek Love (a classic)
5. Beloved
6. Illywacker
7. In Praise of the Stepmother
8. White Noise
9. Mystery Train (non-fiction) and Lipstick Traces
10. Collected Stories of TC Boyle
11. All The Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian
12. The Farewell Symphony

That’s all I can think of now. But it is 6 AM and I’m just going to bed.

Reading now: Feast of Love–a wonderful thing, that book and download mp3 online. Not what you”d ever expect.