So I have both Salman Rushdie's 2000 novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and his essay collection,Step Across This Line, open before me, with Yiyun Li's book under my glasses and a sheaf of papers with all of Todd's notes and suggestions for this critical essay on the desk. I was awake until 5 AM trying to make myself write the essay and it wasn't ( Read more... )

Smeg's got hyacinths, daffodils, tulips and narcissus coming up! Also, leeks. They're cute and happy little plants.

Last night was the Yiyun Li reading. I really admire her. She's a great writer. Hers is the only book I bought for class that I'm definitely keeping - I had her sign it and shook her hand and told her that I thought of her as the ( Read more... )