Category Archives: Books

On Which I Wax Eloquently Concerning John Ashbery

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Kiki Malone

You really should read John Ashbery. He’s the only poet you can say “I don’t get it” and you’d be 100% correct. Not getting it is the point. At least I think it is, even though to make such a … Continue reading →

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For Seth Haines

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Kiki Malone

Seth, I owe you a phone call. It’s been a busy week. But Monday on your website you requested book recommendations. I’ll echo the first comment / recommendation you received by tagging below the section from chapter two of Christian Wiman’s … Continue reading →

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Books 13-18 out of 52 in 2013

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Kiki Malone

(Check the 28 Books of 2013 link above for scores to each title. Sorry I did not include them below. I don’t know what’s lamer: that I’m posting a list of the books I’m reading or that I’m too lazy … Continue reading →

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The Geek Genuflects

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Kiki Malone

4:52 PM – I’ve drank twice as much coffee as two days ago but half as much as yesterday. Glory. *** “I never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn.” – Francis ‘Frank’ Underwood, from … Continue reading →

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Spotlight on Kelly Riad : Author, Reader, Pet-Hoarder, Personal Friend to Me and Nemesis to Katy Perry

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Kiki Malone

10:47 AM – Started the day early reading Gary Shteyngart archives from the New Yorker. (His latest piece – “From The Diaries of Pussy-Cake” in the June 10th Crime Fiction edition is priceless. Check it out while it’s still free.) … Continue reading →

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Anne Lamott’s Rosie – A Review

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Kiki Malone

8:21 AM – Met Pepe for coffee. Discussed our late 80s golden age of television, the glory of Arrested Development, Jason Segel’s genius puppetry, the sincerity of youth, the ridiculousness of youth, the irony of a nonnative Spanish speaker teaching … Continue reading →

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What Fiction Can Teach Us and The Various Incarnations of Believing

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Kiki Malone

7:26 AM – There is no Cesar Milan to tell me why my pug has taken to choral practices, sitting on the couch’s edge, singing into open living spaces, as if he’s beckoning the clawed scratch of a lover pug … Continue reading →

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THE GREAT GATSBY – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction and Baz Lurhmann’s Film in Dual Review

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Kiki Malone

8:26 AM – Talking to moms. Drinking coffees. Listening to Coltrane. Prepping for road trip with my pug-dog. There is only Sabbath here. *** “And I had the intentions of reading many other books besides.” – Nick Carraway, narrator of … Continue reading →

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Scary Rants Vol. 5 : Zombies Vs. Contagions Part 3/6 – Questions of Consumption and Questions of Purgatory : A Zombie’s Place at the Table and on the Earth

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Kiki Malone

6:22 AM – Our pug-dog took a doberman’s form shortly after 5:00 this morning, protecting us with loud volumes from the neighbor’s morning departure to work. Who can sleep after such excitement? So I made coffee and began reading The Great … Continue reading →

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Scary Rants Vol. 4 : Zombies Vs. Contagions Part 2/6 – Resurrection, Reanimation and Rigor Mortis : What is a “Zombie”?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Kiki Malone

8:54 AM – Two days with this new Mr. Coffee maker and my addiction pours like methamphetamine waste into South Missouri creek beds. Glorious morning already, featuring chats with mom and Attorney John and Dr. Myles and Dear Abby Leigh, … Continue reading →

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