Friday, March 16, 2007
In-Flight Reading
Acquired in preparation for a cross-country flight on JetBlue to a city threatened by snow:
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
edited by Dave Eggers
Rising Up and Rising Down
by William T. Vollman
The anthology offers an amusing collection of short stories, comics and blog entries well-suited for the time between in-flight interruptions and biological upheavals resulting from the act of hurtling through space in a winged bus. I am looking forward to the Haruki Murakami story ("The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day") along with savoring the 700 hobo names listed in the excerpt from The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman (a.k.a. "...and I'm a PC"), columnist for McSweeney's, which coincidentally is the publisher of Rising Up and Rising Down (7 Volume Set)
. The paperback version I will bring to the airport is but a pared-down 700-page version of the original, but it still contains Vollmann's Moral Calculus (description from the back cover) "a structured decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not."
On second thought, maybe that's not the best book to bring on an airplane these days.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
edited by Dave EggersRising Up and Rising Down
by William T. VollmanThe anthology offers an amusing collection of short stories, comics and blog entries well-suited for the time between in-flight interruptions and biological upheavals resulting from the act of hurtling through space in a winged bus. I am looking forward to the Haruki Murakami story ("The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day") along with savoring the 700 hobo names listed in the excerpt from The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman (a.k.a. "...and I'm a PC"), columnist for McSweeney's, which coincidentally is the publisher of Rising Up and Rising Down (7 Volume Set). The paperback version I will bring to the airport is but a pared-down 700-page version of the original, but it still contains Vollmann's Moral Calculus (description from the back cover) "a structured decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not."On second thought, maybe that's not the best book to bring on an airplane these days.
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