Read
Started both of these and had planned on finishing…leaving here as a reminder of how long it’s taking me to read them with my time split between heavy teaching load and exercising…
Ellroy, Black Dahlia
Enright, The Making of Grand Paris
Watched
Quixote Nuevo at Seattle Rep
A Case for the Existence of God, ACT Theatre
Après La Romaine
Wrote
I’ve also been working on papers for UAA and AAG conferences, so that’s eating up more casual reading time than research has recently.
Read
Haider, Mistaken Identity
Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons
Mailer, Barbary Shore
Davis, The Other Side of Empathy
Watched
Some Simpsons episodes w/ kids
The Bear episodes
The cruise
Read
Didion, Play it as it lays
Watched/Listened
Wonka (reopened Cinerama w/ kids)
The Firm
Rush Hour w/ kids on NYE
A bunch of Charlie Rose and Firing Line episodes (guests: Norman Mailer, Harold Pinter, Alan Ginsberg, et al)
Philip Roth BBC Special
Ordinary Unhappiness, Don DeLillo Should Win the Nobel Prize, Know Your Enemy, LARB podcast.
Read
DeLillo, The Names, Players
Rolnik, Spheres of Insurrection
Watched
Get Out
Ma Rainey
Us
Whiplash
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Holdovers
Read
Ben Lerner, 10:04
Chris Kraus, Summer of Hate
Joshua Coheb, The Netanyahus
Watched
Better Call Saul, S6
Frantic
Started the month w/Covid, must have caught it on the flight back from Paris, so lots of reading time…
Simenon, La Patience de Maigret
Elif Batuman, Either/Or
Henry James, The American
Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans
Hari Kunzru, Red Pill
Excerpt from Heschel’s The Sabbath
Watched
White Noise
The Big Short
Barbie
About half of Better Call Saul S6
Read
Simenon, Maigret á New York
And as a bonus, I realized that my balcony in Paris gave me a direct view of Maigret’s apartment on Boulevard Richard-Lenoir (it’s the last building in direct view after I turn to the right).
I wasn’t documenting my study abroad course here, but I did a better job over on Instagram.
Watched
Belle de jour
Paris, Texas
La Haine
Cleo de 5 à 7
To be honest, la plupart du mois, je ne me souviens pas. J’étais en train de préparer mon cours à Paris. Je viens de finir le seul livre que j’ai lu en juin maintenant le 4 juillet sur un banc boulevard Richard-Lenoir près de mon appartement rue j-p timbaud:
Thacker, Infinite resignation
Je sais que sur l’avion j’ai regardé deux films:
Nope
Casino
Au-delà ce livres et ces films je crois pas que j’ai lu beaucoup sauf beaucoup d’articles et des pages d’internet pour préparer mon cours. Le cours, c’est super jusqu’à présent, aujourd’hui nous avons fait un parcours près de la périphérique en explorant les équipements verts (ou les infrastructures vertes? Je connais pas le bon mot).
Didn’t read much for pleasure, spent most of my time teaching/prepping for Paris study abroad (I’ll be there June 18 – July 30, please get in touch!)., and clearly listening to podcasts as I squeak in exercise between 10 and midnight.
Read
Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy
Watched
Succession S4
Listened
Articles of Interest/The Dig/Hotel Bar Sessions/Marketplace/Questlove Supreme/Anti-capitalist Chronicles/LARB Radio Hour/Economic Update/Behind the News/Pitchfork Economics/Cities After…
Read
Handful of articles on land rent theory
Ross, Communal Luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune
Christian Lorentzen’s substack and lots of New Yorker articles
Watched
Succession S1-S3
My Desiring-Machines 