Current Reading

I love the way the novel traces the ghost Roman remains in the dwindling ideal of "nobility"

The way Di Lampedusa describes 19th century Sicily ...as

Jack the Knight.. Good title for a DJ no?

Douglas Preston's The Monster Of Florence is hella cinematic

There is the story and then there's the way the story changes the teller.

10 years from now, first editions of this book will be a serious collector's item

People who very visual usually have a hard time with words and those fluent in words often times can't produce images as well as they can describe them. Photographer Pieter Hugo is the rare case where a mastery of images matches a mastery of text. Check out this excerpt from his website (pieterhugo.com/nigeria/index.html) describing the genesis of his "Hyena And Other Men" project.

A sample of Roland Barthe's poetic insights about Japan

5 reasons why Barthes "meditation" on Japan as an epiphany of "empty signs" has me awestruck

The Chance Is Higher by Dashwood designed by the Swiss team Gavillet and Rust.

Tiffany Godoy's book is a triple must buy

Better late than never and better in the current context says TI

Would it be gauche to be caught reading this on the beach?

Caracole by Edmund White won't be made into a film anytime soon. Trust!

"A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick

TI's weekend reading will be "Couples" by John Updike. I'm thinking "all the details "Icestorm" glossed over