What I'm Reading

Sometimes, books almost jump off the shelves of the library into my hands -- I've had them fall off a shelf onto my feet on occasion if I, perhaps, had missed their more subtle entreaty. Here's the latest catch/cache:

The Plenitude / Rich Gold

"creativity, innovation, and making stuff"

Gold, who died in 2007, worked at various times for Xerox PARC and Mattel, and characterized himself as wearing 4 hats [science, art, design, engineering] -- sometimes singly and sometimes, as he says, on top of one another at the same time.

C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy / Jeff Sharlet

Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking

Yum.

 

The Best American Essays, 2011 / Edwidge Danticat, Ed.

Essays are conversations and they are my favorite form of literature. Frequently nonfictional or autobiographical, they don't have to be; it's a very open genre in content and style. Essays, however, are always personal and one of the most intimate forms of literary communication. I've been reading the annual collections for 20 years. This one looks to be as amazing as the others.