Monday, December 19, 2011
reading (notes)
Okay, so I want to get back to reading, but feel so paralyzed in a way, how infinite it all is, when you're not so focused closely on one project. I'm feeling drawn lately to delicious gothic interiors by women writers - Jackie W. recommended The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns after she read Green Girl, and I also want to read Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, which Danielle D. at the Dorothy Project recently republished. I want to go back to Caroline Blackwood's novels, Jean Stafford's, both published by the NYRB, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers. Maybe also Herta Muller? (What Herta Muller should I read?) Some of these authors/books are kind of comingling for me into an essay on the South and the grotesque and illness and writing the body, although part of me doesn't know whether I should issue a personal ban on essay-writing, as I'm still fact-checking Heroines (it's taking me like a half-hour to fact-check one page, part puppy, part puppy brain, part the slowness of such an endeavor). Or: maybe: I should just read to be a reader, for the pleasure and stimulation of it. What a fucking novel idea.
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yes, reading for pleasure: a totally novel idea (and great pun, as well)! i just finished my last final last night and am aching to spend long nights alone with david wojnarowicz. as for herta muller (an author whose work is one of the reasons i am learning german. i want to read this gorgeous prose in its original form.), definitely start with The Land of Green Plums and then read The Passport. sooooo beautiful and sooooo important. she is a tremendous writer.
ReplyDeletethanks love. i think i might be trying to take german next semester. again. trying to take it again.
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