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'What I desired was to live the moment until I wore it out'

Clarice Lispector

'What I desired was to live the moment until I wore it out'

Clarice Lispector

Books by Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, The Actual: A Novella; Books by Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album; The Founders on American Democracy: The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay; Books by Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon,
Beloved: Books by Barack Obama: Dreams of My Father, We are the Change We Seek, 1984, Life, A Life of Picasso.

"Interpretation does not always prevail. To avoid interpretation, art may become abstract. Or it may become merely decorative. To avoid interpretation it may become (merely) decorative."

Against Interpretation
1961

Thank you Gallery Books for providing me an advanced reader's copy of THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel. I am enjoying this true story of a young woman in World War II whose talent for forgery helps Jewish children escape the Nazi horrors.

The 2020 PEN America Literary Service Award with be presented to Patti Smith in May.

ARC from St. Martin's Publishing Group by Natalie Jenner. "Explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all. Meet the Jane Austen Society and fall in love with a literary genius all over again..." On Sale 5/26/20.

ARC from St. Martin's Press Marketing. Debut by Natalie Jenner. "It's a powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all." On Sale 5/26/20.

"When Rex Tillerson ascended to the top of Exxon in 2006, he was atop a juggernaut. Like all oil producers, Exxol continued to enjoy the sorts of subsidies that had been in the tax codes for almost a century. This kept its annual tax bills low---at times almost unbelievably low---no matter it's profits."

Indictment of uncaring corp mgrs for our planet.

"First Muhammed Ali died, then Sandy and Castro and Princess Leia and her mother.Heart-wrenching injustices constituting the new facts of life. The Year of the Monkey." Patti Smith was 69 yrs old. She would say goodbye to intimate relationships, master more art forms, and look to a new decade with a starting line marked aging.

"First Muhammed Ali died, then Sandy and Castro and Princess Leia and her mother.Heart-wrenching injustices constituting the new facts of life. The Year of the Monkey." Patti Smith was 69 yrs old. She would say goodbye to intimate relationships, master more art forms, and look to a new decade with a starting line marked designating aging.

Listened almost without interruption for ten hours to Farrow's investigative account of inappropriate and criminal crimes against women by a powerful man in Hollywood and NBC's Today Show. Read by author, Ronan Farrow.

Evidence of Obstruction:

The appointment of the Special Counsel and the President's Reaction.

Acting Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller, III as Special Counsel and authorized him to conduct the Russia investigation and matters that were from that investigation. President Trump said to Sessions, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."

Evidence of Obstruction:

The appointment of the Special Counsel and the President's Reaction.

Acting Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller, III as Special Counsel and authorized him to conduct the Russia investigation and matters that were from that investigation. President Trump said to Sessions, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."

Evidence of Obstruction:

The appointment of the Special Counsel and the President's Reaction.

Acting Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. Mueller, III as Special Counsel and authorized him to conduct the Russia investigation and matters that were from that investigation. President Trump said to Sessions, "Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."

Executive Summary to Volume II

Our obstruction-of-justice inquiry focused on a series of actions by the President that related to the Russian-interference investigation, including the President's conduct towards the law-enforcement officials overseeing the investigations and the witnesses to relevant events.

"Space, let me repeat, is enormous. The average distance between stars out there is 20 million million miles. Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good. The most conservative inputs the number of advanced civilizations just in the Milky Way works out to be somewhere in the millions."

"Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher, deep ecologist, and alpinist extraordinaire---is now eighty year old, and he still tries to avoid doing the same thing twice. Only in the past few years, as past memories began to seem more precise than more recent one, did he decide that this kind of personal history might be worthy of some attention.

David Rothenberg Conversations With Arne Naess 1991