Vicarious MFA
Vicarious MFA: Week in review
The Vicarious MFA
Monday: In Amy Benson’s Non/Fiction class we discussed The Things They Carried. Everybody liked it, said smart things, left feeling hopeful. Read “Beauty Before Comfort” by Allison Glock for next week.
+In Lethem’s class we talked about Joe Brainard’s “I Remember” and Carl Wilson’s “Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste” which was endorsed by a classmate here.
+Joyce Carol Oates came to lecture. (See notes here.)
Tuesday: I turned in a workshop submission.
Wednesday: Lethem took a group from the class to a secret bookstore which is described here. I bought “What Maise Knew” by Henry James. The copy I got is really old and has an Edward Gorey illustration on the cover. There was a whole section of the store devoted to Edward Gorey covers. I can’t explain how great this place was. If any of you are ever in New York let me know and I will try to get you an appointment there.
Thursday: Discussed In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin and an awesome profile of Chatwin by David Plante. Read Dakota by Kathleen Norris for next week.
**I feel like including my notes is kind of useless for the VMFA, and that the reading lists are what you really want.**
shit no give us notes give us lists they’re entertaining
shit no give us notes give us lists they’re entertaining
shit no give us notes give us lists they’re entertaining
I’m with sasha. It’s all good.
Where is the “here” in “described here”? Is there supposed to be a link? I want to go to the secret bookstore!
Where is the “here” in “described here”? Is there supposed to be a link? I want to go to the secret bookstore!
Where is the “here” in “described here”? Is there supposed to be a link? I want to go to the secret bookstore!
OH! yes. Sorry. Forgot to attach the link. will fix now.
OH! yes. Sorry. Forgot to attach the link. will fix now.
OH! yes. Sorry. Forgot to attach the link. will fix now.
notes please.
notes please.
notes please.
That bookstore is fun — was just there yesterday, and I bought an oooold copy of Ariel, a Winterson novel I don’t know why I haven’t read yet, the Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, and Ali Smith’s Hotel World (a blurb in which really pisses off Michael Seidenberg — so I took it off his hands for him).
Anyway, it’s an experience. Books and shelves floor to ceiling, and those warm familiar smells of yellowed pages and pipe smoke. Very nice. A well-spent hour, indeed. (Many thanks to Ryan Kearney, managing editor of Columbia: a journal…for making the appointment!)
That bookstore is fun — was just there yesterday, and I bought an oooold copy of Ariel, a Winterson novel I don’t know why I haven’t read yet, the Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, and Ali Smith’s Hotel World (a blurb in which really pisses off Michael Seidenberg — so I took it off his hands for him).
Anyway, it’s an experience. Books and shelves floor to ceiling, and those warm familiar smells of yellowed pages and pipe smoke. Very nice. A well-spent hour, indeed. (Many thanks to Ryan Kearney, managing editor of Columbia: a journal…for making the appointment!)
That bookstore is fun — was just there yesterday, and I bought an oooold copy of Ariel, a Winterson novel I don’t know why I haven’t read yet, the Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, and Ali Smith’s Hotel World (a blurb in which really pisses off Michael Seidenberg — so I took it off his hands for him).
Anyway, it’s an experience. Books and shelves floor to ceiling, and those warm familiar smells of yellowed pages and pipe smoke. Very nice. A well-spent hour, indeed. (Many thanks to Ryan Kearney, managing editor of Columbia: a journal…for making the appointment!)