the lash
on buying & finding books on-line
One of my favorite places on the web is Project Gutenberg, where you can get loads of public domain texts -- there's enough there to keep you occupied for months on end. Enjoy. Amazon.Com is a wonderful bookstore, but my favorite place is still Daedalus Books -- they sell quality discount literature and CDs.
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Visit my Amazon.Com-affiliated bookstore, where you'll find the complete Nabokov bibliography.Here you'll find information on and links to some of my favorite writers -- mostly a reader's approach: how I read the novel, why it's worth reading, and so on. Also included a list of basic research material if you're writing a paper or want to find hard data on the writers -- what to look for, what to avoid. My favorite writer is Vladimir Nabokov, so I've created a site for him. The other writers are here, arranged helter skelter. If you're not interested in authors and just wanted to see some other types of links, click here.
This page is dedicated to contemporary authors who are underrepresented on the web. So I won't mention basic, meat-and-potatoes killer fare like Miguel De Cervantes, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, or the immortal Dickens -- all of whom I've read and still read and heavily worship. Neither is the page for all the great and well-exposed authors going round, all of which I've read and enjoyed, such as Douglas Coupland, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, or David Foster Wallace.
Some thoughts on movies are included at the bottom, under the (surprise) "Movies" heading. A few of these articles were written for Savoy magazine, a web-based publication that you should explore and enjoy at leisure.
books
- Felony & Wine
My (justifiably) enthusiastic review of Peter Gadol's The Long Rain.
- Holographic Tropes
Some thoughts on Ralph Ellison's aesthetics.
- Shakespeare's Psalm
The strange nature of Psalm 46. Did Shakespeare have a hand in polishing the prose of the King James Bible?
- You've Had Your Time
Anthony Burgess remembered.
- Mores & Worth
Thoughts on the parallel tracks of language and literature, mores and morality in Anderson's superb Winesburg, Ohio.
- Plutonic
My take on Don DeLillo's Underworld.
movies
- Math, Cabala, Paranoia
What did I think of Darren Aronofsky's Pi?