I finished Sean Wilsey's memoir Oh The Glory of It All. I thought it was pretty good. Though I'm not sure you would necessarily like it. It's a bit like Eggers' AWOSG, though it's much more straight forward than AWOSG. Basically Sean's parents are wealthy San Fransiscoans who divorce, upon which his life goes to shit and he is sent to various boarding schools, etc...
I'm reading Joan Didion's A Year Of Magical Thinking for the third time, for no particular reason other than that I got it back from Kristen when she visited me in DC a few weeks back...after that there a ton of books I've bought recently that I want to read:
Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Jeremy Scahill's Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Private Army
Vitezslav Nezval' Valeria and Her Week of Wonders (Czech surrealism from the inter-war period)
Ron Currie, Jr.'s God Is Dead (a short story collection that is somewhat interconnected...god is reborn in Dafur and killed in the genocide...the stories pick up there)
Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (getting some pretty great reviews)
George Saunder's The Braindead Megaphone (a collection of his non-fiction pieces...he writes amazing short stories)
T.S. Eliot's The Wastelands (Maggie's bday present 2006 that I haven't read yet)
Karen Russel's St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised By Wolves (well reviewed short stories from last year)
145 stories in a box (very short stories (under 3 pages) from Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sarah Manguso)
Millard Kaufman's Bowl of Cherries (the debut novel from a 90 year old who co-created Mr. Magoo and was nominated for two academy awards for writing Bad Day at Black Rock and Braintree County)
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