Brain On Vacation
Dec. 28th, 2005 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarkagesI am enjoying the fruits of Chanukah -- Bach's French Suites and English Suites, performed respectively by an assertive Andras Schiff and a gentle and imaginative Angela Hewitt. It's nice to have performances of Bach keyboard music that are Not By Glenn Gould. Angela gets negative style points, however, for her booklet glamour shot, in which she appears wearing a black and white tooled leather outfit with wide lapels.
Taking a break from editing a large, recalcitrant blob of fiction, I am reading whatever I feel like, in no particular order. Today, that is a collection of Charles Baxter essays, Burning Down The House, which is sort of a latter-day Poetry and the Age, and The Better of McSweeney's, which is an anthology of works with all the typical Eggers-machine gestures. The latter makes you want to declare certain areas as irony-free zones, in which a twee footnote or raised eyebrow would be punishable by main force.
I have decided that Poets & Writers is actually a slow translation of Publisher's Weekly from an alternate universe. There are a surprising number of Foetry-style coincidences between advertising and editorial. I may not renew my subscription.
Taking a break from editing a large, recalcitrant blob of fiction, I am reading whatever I feel like, in no particular order. Today, that is a collection of Charles Baxter essays, Burning Down The House, which is sort of a latter-day Poetry and the Age, and The Better of McSweeney's, which is an anthology of works with all the typical Eggers-machine gestures. The latter makes you want to declare certain areas as irony-free zones, in which a twee footnote or raised eyebrow would be punishable by main force.
I have decided that Poets & Writers is actually a slow translation of Publisher's Weekly from an alternate universe. There are a surprising number of Foetry-style coincidences between advertising and editorial. I may not renew my subscription.
