to Myopic with:
William Shirer, Berlin Diary (BOMC special edition). Slipcase slightly dented. An impressive production.
Roger Zelazny, Unicorn Variations (Timescape).
Neil Steinberg, Complete and Utter Failure (review copy)
Michael Dorris, The Benchmark (Preview sampler)
Jane Alpert, Growing Up Underground (Morrow pb)
David Owen, The Walls Around Us (review)
Roger Zelazny, Author's Choice Monthly 27 (Pulphouse)
Willie Morris, New York Days (review)
Dagoberto Gilb, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna. Signed.
Norman Sims, The Literary Journalists (pb anthology)
W.D. Howells, Italian Journeys (Marlboro pb)
Zen for Beginners
John Lukacs, Budapest 1900
Matthew Sharpe, Jamestown (signed pb)
William Packard, The Poet's Dictionary
V. Zhitova, The Turgenev Family (Roy)
George Plimpton, ed., The Paris Review Anthology
Rejected: the Zelaznys (he is passe), the Shirer (weirdly), the Turgenev, the Dorris, Morris and Gilb. net proceeds: $25.
According to this morning's Wash Post it's your fault the Salinger faithful have no Hapworth between covers.
Better get a flak jacket. Ah, the hazards of lit'ry journalism.
Posted by: Lawrence Tate | January 29, 2010 at 09:35 AM