Luxagraf

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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 01/31/08: I haven't had a chance to read much lately, I've been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if ...
77 Dream Songs 10/15/07: Keats said beauty is truth, but then talking of beauty fell out of fashion and creating the beautiful fell out ...
The Cave 10/15/07: Not one of Saramago's better books, but still enjoyable. Saramago in the Salon review: "We think that this so-called reality ...
South of the Border, West of the Sun 09/09/07: Here's a nice quote from a review: "In the heightened state of perception that exists just before the fall into ...
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 09/09/07: Amazing book that is somehow highly cerebral and yet still gorgeously written and has more soul than some James Brown ...
Kafka on the Shore 09/09/07: Probably my favorite Murakami book (though I haven't read them all)
Dance, Dance, Dance 09/09/07: I happen to love Murakami and Dance Dance Dance is a nice intro if you haven't read him before. It's ...
Austerlitz 09/09/07: "All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing ...
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love… 09/09/07: Hands down the best American book of the 20th century. A bold claim I know, but I stand by it. ...
I Don’t Sleep I Dream 05/28/06: Once you pass through the odd and oversized foyer, which feels like a half finished storefront for H&M or the ...
Ticket To Ride 03/07/06: I can’t see. My eyebrows are orange with dust. I cannot see them, but I know they must be; they ...
Down the River 01/17/06: Morning in Chiang Khong Thailand revealed itself as a foggy, and not a little mysterious, affair with the far shore ...

Filler:

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this space... I thought maybe I would plant a little tree or something, but there's already a little tree just above here. Maybe a watering hole, some sort of saloon. I dunno. Still working on it.

Recent Writings

Thursday
July 3, 2008

Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
Monday
June 30, 2008

You Can't Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
Thursday
June 26, 2008

Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
Saturday
June 7, 2008

In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
Responsibilty and Living Well Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …

Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers -- it sounds like something McSweeney's would print, but no, it's The New Yorker. And unlike most New Yorker pieces this one ...
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala: "Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real): Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...