{"id":7243,"date":"2013-08-15T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2013-08-15T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:29:45","slug":"shafts-big-book-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/shafts-big-book-score","title":{"rendered":"Shaft&#8217;s Big Book Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What with me being me, it&#8217;s tough to go without buying books for too long, although I&#8217;m in semi-austerity mode just now. I ordered a stack of books from <a href=\"http:\/\/Bookcloseouts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bookcloseouts.com<\/a> last week, but still made a stop at the Barnes &amp; Noble on Rt. 17 in Paramus, NJ today, to see if they have a copy of JL Carr&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0940322471\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0940322471&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">A Month in the Country<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0940322471\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> in their used section.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t. Still, I picked up some other things, then came home to find the Bookcloseouts order had arrived.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s today&#8217;s book score:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1239 by Virtual Memoirist, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/9520539692\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" alt=\"IMG_1239\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2880\/9520539692_0a65bdb5a8.jpg?w=440\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004C43GF6\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004C43GF6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Open City<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004C43GF6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Teju Cole &#8211; $7 &#8211; Just &#8216;cuz. If I don&#8217;t dig it, I can give it to a book-reading pal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/156097611X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=156097611X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Locas<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=156097611X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0&#8211; Jaime Hernandez &#8211; $25 &#8211; Because one of my book-reading pals still has my copy of this enormous collection of Love &amp; Rockets comics, and I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll never get it back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Bookcloseouts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bookcloseouts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013V8JA8\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0013V8JA8&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Time of Our Singing<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0013V8JA8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Richard Powers &#8211; $5.99 &#8211; Suggested by upcoming podcast-guest David Rothenberg, partly in hopes of making Richard Powers another upcoming podcast-guest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003R4ZIRG\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003R4ZIRG&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">The Echo Maker<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B003R4ZIRG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Richard Powers &#8211; $5.99 &#8211; Ditto.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0684841215\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0684841215&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Something Happened<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0684841215\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Joseph Heller &#8211; $4.99 &#8211; Recommended by past podcast-guest <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/12zntqD\" target=\"_blank\">David Gates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400079853\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1400079853&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Checkpoint<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1400079853\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Nicholson Baker &#8211; $2.99 &#8211; Ditto, from the part when we talked about shitty novels coming out of the Bush era. He defended this one, so I figure I&#8217;ll give it a shot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802717675\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802717675&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802717675\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Ada Louise Huxtable &#8211; $3.99 &#8211; Suggested by upcoming podcast-guest Phillip Lopate (in a list in the back of his collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451696329\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1451696329&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1451696329\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>). I loved Ms. Huxtable&#8217;s segments in the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/newyork\/\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> documentary by Ric Burns.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004V2WR22\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004V2WR22&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig &amp; Other Essays<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B004V2WR22\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8211; Charles Lamb &#8211; $2.99 &#8211; Another suggestion from Mr. Lopate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll likely hit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclairbookcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Montclair Book Center<\/a> tomorrow afternoon to see about that JL Carr book. And get some barbecue at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewoodpit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wood Pit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What with me being me, it&#8217;s tough to go without buying books for too long, although I&#8217;m in semi-austerity mode just now. I ordered a stack of books from Bookcloseouts.com last week, but still made a stop at the Barnes &amp; Noble on Rt. 17 in Paramus, NJ today, to see if they have a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/shafts-big-book-score\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaft&#8217;s Big Book Score&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,4,1183],"tags":[415,1964,120,1882,96,1962,1911,1893,1963,1362,1587],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-literature","category-podcasts","tag-ada-louise-huxtable","tag-charles-lamb","tag-david-gates","tag-david-rothenberg","tag-jaime-hernandez","tag-jl-carr","tag-joseph-heller","tag-nicholson-baker","tag-phillip-lopate","tag-richard-powers","tag-teju-cole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1SP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6485,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/an-embarrassment-of-riches-maybe","url_meta":{"origin":7243,"position":0},"title":"An Embarrassment (Of riches? 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