I am trying to minimize my trips out of the house, but once a week I go pick up my mail from campus, during the one hour per day that the post office there is open each morning. Today was the day. Ignoring the junk mail, I returned with the following items:
- the newest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education
- the newest issue of TLS, or the Times Literary Supplement
- the newest issue of The Walrus, a Canadian magazine that appears (as best I can tell) to be their equivalent of the Atlantic Monthly, albeit perhaps a bit farther to the left
- the newest issue of The New Criterion (America's finest magazine), this one their annual poetry issue
- a copy of Boccaccio's The Decameron, a book I admit I have never read, though now would certainly be the time
- and, last but not least, a copy of Erwachen zum großen Schlafkrieg, a novel by the wonderfully eccentric Austrian novelist Gert Jonke (1946-2009), to whom I shall return in some later post
A good day. For that matter, a good week. Now it is just a matter of finding time to read a few of these things!
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