GO DOWN, OPRAH

Oprah picks three
Faulkner
novels for her summer reading club, complete with free online commentaries by scholars… The Vintage box includes AS I LAY DYING, SOUND AND THE FURY, and LIGHT IN AUGUST, which is more like the novelist’s broiling core than a 8th-grade educated audience’s introduction. Probably don’t have time to reread these, but I’ll be checking on this… DYING is often used as a primer, but FURY is stone-cold difficult no matter who you are, and AUGUST is a Christ allegory that should get some tooters hooting.



TOP 90s ACTS (randomly)



1. Ride

2. Beck

3. Pavement

4. Portishead

5. Ivy

6. Cardigans

7. Gorillaz

8. DJ Shadow

9. Los Lobos/Latin Playboys

10. Mekons/Langford

11. Pretenders

12. Old 97s

13. Bottle Rockets

14. Dwight Yoakam

15. Bonnie Raitt

16. PJ Harvey

17. Luna

18. Yo La Tengo

19. Iris Dement

20. Nirvana