the peace atlas

(via always with honor)

working on the big ones

(via billy is gray)

the last four books i read

This winter my reading has slowed down. Outside of The Human Stain (mind blowingly excellent) the other books have been lighter which is good for the dark short days of winter. But now I’ve got a long list of titles ahead of me to tackle for the spring, I start a new book tomorrow.

what are you reading?

(via LibraryLand)

t-shirts

(Via Out of Print)

patti smith is so cool

I can’t wait to read her new memoir; I just ordered it.

books i read in november

This is a fantastic book; haunting, disturbing, and incredibly thought provoking. The landscape has stayed with me for days and I still catch myself imaging the desolate and violent post-apocalyptic world that Cormac McCarthy has created. The story is incredibly simple. Two characters, a father and son travel the road heading to the sea in [...]

happy day of the dead!

(via the Guardian)

books i read in october

This book really is the great American novel. It is stunning and gorgeous and deceivingly simple, in the way that Catcher in the Rye is (and clearly under the influence of). And like Catcher in the Rye there is much depth and cultural critique between the lines. At moments it is heady and restless and [...]