Mark the last two weeks as two of the most trying of the past two years. Really and truly. I have been a wreck. If ever anyone needed a vacation, it is Rachel and I. Those of you who pray, we'd certainly appreciate the prayers.
But things are looking up and I am catching up. This post will serve as my Reading and Listening for this week.
Reading...
Dead Souls by Gogol. Still amazing.
Yellow Jack by Josh Russell. Caleb Carr meets Flannery O'Connor meets Poe and Nabakov. How's that for intriguing. A fine piece of historical fiction, centered on New Orleans in the 1800s.
Hobo by Eddie Joe Cotton. The memoir of an honest to goodness real life 21st century hobo. Up there with You Can't Win by Jack Black (the rail rider, not the actor).
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Unreal. Unnerving. Unapologetic.
Listening to...
Today! by Mississippi John Hurt. This was a good week for the blues.
New Moon by Elliott Smith. A 2 disc collection of rarities that could easily have been released as two separate and complete posthumous albums.
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