May 2009
5 posts
Billy Joe Hickorystick on communism...
This one is strangely appropriate to current events (see: Obama is a socialist, Tea Parties, etc.)! While reading a 1964 edition of the Communist Manifesto I checked out of a small-town Indiana library, I came across some old marginalia that, I’m sure, is the result of that one mind-fatiguing time Billy Joe Hickorystick tried perusing something other than his usual read (singular; i.e. not...
Re: pre-reading
eatingbooks:
I went to a Denis Johnson reading the other day. He read prose and poetry. He introduced one of his poems by saying that he had found the book in a used bookstore in Austin, and somebody had annotated the poems in the book. He was so annoyed by the annotations that he bought the book. The pre-reader had in fact crossed out sections of the poem and wrote “dull” by other sections....