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Friday

Kingsley Amis: "Charles Jackson's marvellous and horrifying The Lost Weekend, still the best fictional account of alcoholism I have read." I'm going to have to get that book. First, it deals with booze. Second, it's endorsed by a man of literary quality

Tuesday

Nerd Toy I bought the new Kindle Paperwhite [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1] . It arrived last Thursday. I'm digging it. I bought a first generation iPod over three years ago and, other than the iPhone

More Lawrence

Last week, I featured D. H. Lawrence. I'm following up with this additional DHL that I published five years ago. I've been going back through, checking out these FtH pieces. I'm definitely going to have to consider bringing them back. D. H. Lawrence, Studies

Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm is one of those writers I'd like to read. Unfortunately, there are too many others I'd love to read, so even though I have a couple of Max books, they're largely untouched. Some day, though, some day. Always some day. Joseph Epstein

Monday

I have a few contemporary things to discuss, so today's Eudemon will revert to the traditional TDE style. * * * * * * * Received in the mail: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic by Fr. Robert Wild. I'm looking forward to reading it. From the back cover: Franz Kafka said

Friday

BYCU If you haven't spent a lot of time with Zmirak's Bad Catholic series, you're missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it's all there. I expect to draw a lot of BYCU material from Zmirak, including this nugget:

Voegelin: An Introduction

I first heard about Voegelin through Russell Kirk's Enemies of the Permanent Things. I bought one of Voegelin's shorter books (The New Science of Politics, I think) and was so confused by it that I called Information/Mecosta, and asked for Russell Kirk's phone

Everyday Drinking

I haven't devoted nearly enough attention to drinking literature, but from the books I've read, Kingly Amis' collection of essays, Everyday Drinking, is some of the best. Sure, he's a limey, but I think the English have a special knack for creating drinking

Friday

Mini-Review Leisure, The Basis of Culture, by John Pieper (1948). Choice quote: "[T]here can be unused space in the total world of work." Obsessed with efficiency? I am. At least I used to be. I'm a recovering efficiencoholic. It was bad, so bad that my

Wednesday

Mini-Review The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing (1903) Choice quote: "But oh, how good it is to desire little, and to have a little more than enough!" Nerd heaven: An older writer who scrapes together a living receives a small annuity for life. It'