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He'd had the sense, moments earlier, that Caroline was on the verge of accusing him of being "depressed," and he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions. He would forfeit his moral certainties; every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease; he would never win an argument.

— Jonathan Franzen


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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

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🦋 To Troy, Helen

My latest endeavor into translation hits the streets today: To Troy, Helen, by Fernando Iwasaki. This is my second translation to appear in Words Without Borders; their April issue is devoted to fiction about sex. (The sentence they pick as the header for the story, "She had undressed me then as if she were peeling a piece of fruit," is nice. It's one of a couple of Iwasaki's similes that I find I can't precisely grasp but that I still have enough of a muddled understanding of to render well. And it gives a nice sense of the story's verbal feel.)

posted afternoon of Sunday, April first, 2012
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➪ Delivering SXSW's keynote speech this year, Bruce Springsteen on the evolution of pop into a new language, cultural force, social movement...
➪ At his NY Times blog, Dick Cavett writes up two new books concerning Groucho. (Thanks for the link, Ellen!) Robert Bader's Selected Writings of Groucho Marx sounds unmissable.
➪ “Certain members of your community have suggested that my work is evil. This is extraordinarily insulting to me.” — Letters of Note reprint's Vonnegut's letter to the head of the Drake, ND school board. (Thanks for the link, Jeff!)
➪ At Orbis Quintus, badger links to a piece of memoir/fiction by Bolaño, newly translated by Chris Andrews, in the latest Harper's: I Can't Read.
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