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Roy Scranton is learning to stop worrying and love the academy in Princeton, New Jersey. His stories, poems, and essays have been published in Boston Review, the New York Times, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, Theory & Event, and elsewhere. He is one of the editors of Fire and Forget, published by Da Capo press in February 2013.

16 November 2006

Busy Month

The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen, which was very cranky and very good. The Wild Boys, William Burroughs, a re-read: I'd remembered there was a bunch of gay butt-sex in this book, but I forgot just how much. Most of The Essential Augustine, for class. It's interesting but the Jesusing is always tiresome. Epictetus, The Enchiridion, and something like The Essential Epicurus. Plato, The Euthyprho, The Apology of Socrates and The Crito. Most of Yusinari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, which are quite nice--delicate, suspended. It doesn't seem like much for over a month, but I suppose I've been fairly busy.