Recently:
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher. (Research.)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kaddath by H.P. Lovecraft. (The old Ballantine Adult Fantasy edition from 1970 – and it’s the first time I’ve read it!)
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas.
Gothic! (YA short-story collections; more research and a MAJOR slog.)
The Writer’s Tale by Russell T. Davies. The Doctor Who writing process, by a genius who’s not afraid to burn his bridges.
Currently:
Ophelia Speaks by Sara Schandler. (More research.)
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. (Yet more research.)
About Writing by Samuel R. Delany. (Chip’s astounding knowledge, erudition, and writing chops have always been a source of profound irritation for me.)
The Jewish War by Josephus. Found my father’s copy of this old Penguin – printed in Isreal! – last June in NYC. You can only read a few pages at a time. Dense, but chock full of violence, treachery, depravity, and other Roman goodness, written by one of the most fascinating characters in literature – a Jewish historian and commander of the Jewish army in Galilee who became a Roman citizen; upholder of Jewish tradition to the Romans, Roman apologist to the Jews, and a guy for whom the phrase “You can’t please everybody” apparently held no terror. I am reading his famous account preparatory to reading Lion Feuchtwanger’s novel Josephus.
A bucketload of plays by my friend Rob Shearman.
The first draft of Audry’s novel.
Next from the stack:
Blood Promise by Richelle Mead. (That I might better understand what flips Audry out.)
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. (Penguin Read Red, loaded with win!)
Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter & Seymour by J.D. Salinger. (Can’t believe I never read this one.)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link.
Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam by David Kaufman.
…unless I change my mind and grab something else instead.
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