Bag of Books / Bounty retrieved from L.A.’s Central Library from the top: The Necessity of the Mind - Roger Caillois / Checked out once before. Saw it, grabbed it. Vermeer in Bosnia - Lawrence Weschler / Checked out once before, wanted to reread his beautiful essay “The Light of L.A.” Archive - Walter Benjamin / For happy perusing of Benjamin’s handwritten notes, scraps, images, & fragments Berlin Childhood around 1900 - Walter Benjamin / Saw it, grabbed it. Partially read before. The Great Enigma -Tomas Tranströmer / Sought out for better acquaintanceship. if there were anything but desert -Edmond Jabès / Checked out once before and read. Want to soak it up some more. Economy of the Unlost -Anne Carson / Because I want to read everything she’s ever written and will ever write. Vision and Visuality -Hal Foster, ed. / These essays look amazing. The Emancipated Spectator -Jacques Rancière / Saw it, grabbed it. Freud in Coney Island and Other Tales -Norman Klein / Read once before, been thinking about it as of late which means I need to revisit it. A Share of Ink -Edmond Jabès / ooooh I’m excited about this one. Le Contre-Ciel -René Daumal / Saw it, grabbed it. Art and Artist -Otto Rank / I’ve been meaning to read this one since my olden ‘Anaïs Nin days.’ Boundary 2 Vol. 30: Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with the Arcades Project -McLaughlin & Rosen, eds. / because I want to read Tom Gunning’s essay, The Exterior as Intérieur: Benjamin’s Optical Device -Real to Reel -Lidia Yuknavitch / checked out once before and read, been thinking about it as of late which means I need to revisit it. . . . Book junkie extraordinaire, ‘tis me

Bag of Books / Bounty retrieved from L.A.’s Central Library

from the top:

The Necessity of the Mind - Roger Caillois / Checked out once before. Saw it, grabbed it.

Vermeer in Bosnia - Lawrence Weschler / Checked out once before, wanted to reread his beautiful essay “The Light of L.A.”

Archive - Walter Benjamin / For happy perusing of Benjamin’s handwritten notes, scraps, images, & fragments

Berlin Childhood around 1900 - Walter Benjamin / Saw it, grabbed it. Partially read before.

The Great Enigma -Tomas Tranströmer / Sought out for better acquaintanceship.

if there were anything but desert -Edmond Jabès / Checked out once before and read. Want to soak it up some more.

Economy of the Unlost -Anne Carson / Because I want to read everything she’s ever written and will ever write.

Vision and Visuality -Hal Foster, ed. / These essays look amazing.

The Emancipated Spectator -Jacques Rancière / Saw it, grabbed it.

Freud in Coney Island and Other Tales -Norman Klein / Read once before, been thinking about it as of late which means I need to revisit it.

A Share of Ink -Edmond Jabès / ooooh I’m excited about this one.

Le Contre-Ciel -René Daumal / Saw it, grabbed it.

Art and Artist -Otto Rank / I’ve been meaning to read this one since my olden ‘Anaïs Nin days.’

Boundary 2 Vol. 30: Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with the Arcades Project -McLaughlin & Rosen, eds. / because I want to read Tom Gunning’s essay, The Exterior as Intérieur: Benjamin’s Optical Device

-Real to Reel -Lidia Yuknavitch / checked out once before and read, been thinking about it as of late which means I need to revisit it.

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Book junkie extraordinaire, ‘tis me