Unpacking My Library

“There is in the life of a collector a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order.” -Walter Benjamin
I am back in Minnesota, where the first things I see every morning, in any direction, are books. My bed is flanked by bookshelves, so whether I am facing the left or right, I’m taking [...]

Semester in Review

I am done for the semester! As promised, here a brief synopsis of these past few months…

Thomas’s birthday.
My classmates: I love them. Everyone is a character. In trying to select a diverse group for the program, Susie and Ellen ended up essentially casting a reality TV show. We joke that [...]

Hipster Haiku

My roommate got me a book called Hipster Haiku (Siobhan Adcock; Broadway Books, New York) for Christmas. I thought I’d share some:
Hand-rolled cigarettes
You call everything “po-mo”
I think I love you
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I love to listen
To pre-dot-com oldster tales:
Art majors with jobs!
For more on hipster culture, check out The ‘Burg. It has a lot of local [...]

Street Books

Why are the books that they sell on the streets of Manhattan so much better than the ones in the airport? New York has some classy street-books…
TK: A thorough semester-in-review entry, in which I effervesce over my classmates, the celestial city, and even the Library of Death.

This is a view from Astor Place; I [...]

Back in New York

December 1st and it’s 65 degrees out. Eerie. Global warming takes all the joy out of unseasonably warm weather. Last night after class we all stood outside the journalism building in lightweight clothing and said to eachother, “This is really weird.”
It IS weird. I saw a girl walking down 14th St. [...]