Silence (1966 ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh, I just found out that tonight Ray Bradbury will be the guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies!! The movies he's presenting are The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Rebecca, and Citizen Kane. Hmm, I think I am going to need to brew big pots of both coffee *and* yerba mate to try and get through this ( Read more... )

Grifter's Game (originally published as 'Mona' - 1961 ( Read more... )

Anticancer: A New Way of Life (2007 ( Read more... )

The Captive Mind (1953 ( Read more... )

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen & Pre-Zen Writings
compiled by Paul Reps
175 pages - Anchor Books

Gusan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what ( Read more... )

Enchanted Night: A Novella (1999)
by Steven Millhauser
109 pages - Crown Publishers

'Memory keeps turning into imagination.' (pg.33)

This short little book takes place in the space of a single summer night in Connecticut, from just past midnight until the break of dawn, under an almost-full moon. It's divided into small pieces that start at the top ( Read more... )

Top of the Heap (1952 ( Read more... )

House of Leaves (2000 ( Read more... )

The Perennial Philosophy (1945)
by Aldous Huxley
312 pages - Perennial Library

'To find or know God in reality by any outward proofs, or by anything but by God Himself made manifest and self-evident in you, will never be your case either here or hereafter. For neither God, nor heaven, nor hell, nor the devil, nor the flesh, can be any otherwise ( Read more... )