Sontag is at the top of my list for this year. I read On Photography years ago and loved it. My plan is to read Against Interpretation next and also dig into her journals. Highly recommend her NYRB essay on Elias Caneti if you are interested in trying out some of her individual criticism.
Barthes and Walser are both on my list for this year as well.
Autobiography of Red is amazing, really need to read more by Carson. Sweet Days of Discipline was also good. Unfortunately I did not like Near to the Wild Heart and as a result have yet to read more Lispector. When I do I plan to try out her short stories.
Lispector is fantastic. I read The Hour of the Star several years ago and was blown away. I proceeded to get a bunch of her other books because she is very Virginia Woolf-like but of course I have not managed to read any of the books I bought! Oy. I have read Carson's Story of Red and it is pretty wow and made me cry. Happy birthday to Cormac! Nicely done instilling in him the book reading and collecting habit :)
Sontag is at the top of my list for this year. I read On Photography years ago and loved it. My plan is to read Against Interpretation next and also dig into her journals. Highly recommend her NYRB essay on Elias Caneti if you are interested in trying out some of her individual criticism.
Barthes and Walser are both on my list for this year as well.
Autobiography of Red is amazing, really need to read more by Carson. Sweet Days of Discipline was also good. Unfortunately I did not like Near to the Wild Heart and as a result have yet to read more Lispector. When I do I plan to try out her short stories.
Lispector is fantastic. I read The Hour of the Star several years ago and was blown away. I proceeded to get a bunch of her other books because she is very Virginia Woolf-like but of course I have not managed to read any of the books I bought! Oy. I have read Carson's Story of Red and it is pretty wow and made me cry. Happy birthday to Cormac! Nicely done instilling in him the book reading and collecting habit :)
Thanks for the recommendations!