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[jfb]

Tonight's theme is "literary fiction", with one exception. These are from the "I'm not going to finish these" purge, so I can't really vouch for them, but most of them are supposed to be good.

• Laurence Stern, Tristram Shandy. "The most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century."
  
• Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (short stories) and Anagrams (novel).
  
• Don DeLillo, Underworld. Remember the Cold War?
  
• Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter. Remember John Brown?
  
• Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! Remember Dave Eggers?
  
• Absolute Disaster: Fiction from Los Angeles and California Shorts. Stories.
  
• Summer by Felicity Porter. Promotional oddity, "transcriptions" of the tapes two fictional characters sent each other after the first season of their TV series.

I also have a DVD player if anyone wants it. Pay me for shipping. It's a Philips DVD642, newish. Sean likes it, and so do I--it's just not much use without a TV.

Comments

[artname.livejournal.com]

I'll take the Banks, Moore, and Absolute Disaster. I can put them on my shelf.

Feel free to poach them for other people, since I haven't started Middlesex yet ..

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Noted. I still have a stack of CDs for you, too.