Current and Future Distractions: Hoopinion's Off-Season Reading List
The annual season review posts are on the way but their ETA remains TBD. The initial entry, on Rick Sund, raises questions and necessitates caveats of a fundamental, both to the organization and this venture, nature.
To accompany this promise of certain restatements and possible insights, allow me to provide a brief list of what I'll intend to be reading while I intermittently intend to be writing yet more about these Atlanta Hawks...
The Pale King and The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
and, for the third consecutive off-season, 2666 by Roberto Bolano
Plus assorted half-finished periodicals accumulated during the season, Heat Rash #1, and the new Philip Kerr. Enjoy the off-season as you wish but, I implore you, enjoy it.
I have not graduated out of DFW short stories. but I will never look at junior league tennis in Illinois the same way again.
ReplyDeleteBig fan of Bolano--the Part About the Girls is absolute madness.
ReplyDeleteI also just read the DFW essay on junior league tennis, and I mean just (two days ago, on a plane), so Drew Ditzel's comment made me laugh.