I thought, as I sat in the wing chair:

First of all, thanks to The Review Review for writing a review last year of Issue 6 of the Los Angeles Review that I just came across after a little bit of detective work! I am beyond grateful for the nod. The review is here!

Second, the Third Year LIVE LIT is tomorrow night! Featuring all wonderful writers, without a doubt. Miranda Dennis, Adam Cogbill, Nick Sansone, and Jessica Miele. 8 pm, Amherst Books. Be there or be square.




Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.

"Oread," H.D.

Woods, sea, city. Where to live?

A house made entirely of wood, in the woods.





want to sit in one with a cup of tea and a book.


Speaking of books, we've read 6 books in our "Time and the Novel" class so far. Only one book has ended on a positive note, but without a doubt the writing is superb. So far we have read:
1. Katherine Anne Porter's "Noon Wine"
2. SB's "Of Mice and Men"
3. Glenway Westcott's The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
4. Saul Bellow's Seize the Day
5. Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters
6. Jill Ciment's Heroic Measures <---the positive one. And it was pretty good, I'll say.

Also, in the Comparative Lit class I'm taking, on Modern Poetry and Poetics, we are getting really far into Pound. We're reading the Cantos, and it's good to know that books like this exist: . The class does make me want to know every language possible. I get this nagging feeling that I should have known about comp lit when I was in undergrad, because THEN I wouldn't have had such anxiety and fretting over WHICH LANGUAGE to pursue. I could have just pursued them all! I took 101s in so many languages, I started and had potential in so many languages, but had a moment like the legend in The Bell Jar: the man sitting in the crotch of the fig tree, starving to death because he couldn't decide which part of the tree to take from. So I didn't get fluent in any language.

CURRENT GOAL: Writing poems while also keeping one's class schedule, assignments completed, and lesson plans under control.

I will end this post with pictures of my latest cooking adventure: making and canning apple butter!











SUCCESS!



I used This Recipe.