tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post4286600695767844784..comments2024-03-26T00:50:30.273-07:00Comments on silver in sf: my summer reading listdavid silverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13007485910206158803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post-38127135181161768122009-06-26T20:42:28.728-07:002009-06-26T20:42:28.728-07:00Thanks for the tip! Checked out the site, will be...Thanks for the tip! Checked out the site, will begin tonight. Lots of side-blogging going on about it, too. If only I found people more, well... interesting.parisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post-73796993724662852192009-06-26T08:45:37.281-07:002009-06-26T08:45:37.281-07:00ooh, nice reading list paris!
you may want to che...ooh, nice reading list paris!<br /><br />you may want to check out <a href="http://infinitesummer.org/" rel="nofollow">infinite summer</a>, a group of readers distributed all over the place reading infinite jest this summer.david silverhttp://silverinsf.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post-23642405926379060202009-06-25T18:14:00.497-07:002009-06-25T18:14:00.497-07:00Simone de Beauvoir's "The Mandarins"...Simone de Beauvoir's "The Mandarins" (1956), as prep for my Camus seminar this Fall, but really assigning it was just a way to get myself to read it. I finished last week; it was fabulous! <br /><br />David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (1996). I started this a decade ago, but got distracted after 250 or so pages. I've felt disturbed for months now that our generation's pre-eminent novelist has died so young and in pain, and I want to give respect where due. <br /><br />Roberto Bolano's "2066" (2004, trans. in 2008)) is on my list, as is Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" (2008), but I'm hoping to get discounted copies of both first, since last I looked they're still in top-dollar cloth.parisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post-76014229102931464022009-06-14T09:05:54.145-07:002009-06-14T09:05:54.145-07:00hey melissa!
i haven't read building commons ...hey melissa!<br /><br />i haven't read building commons and community yet (that's what summer's for!) but i'm really excited to. i think it will make an excellent gift for your dad on father's day.<br /><br />judging from your tweets, it sounds like new york is treating you well. see you soon.david silverhttp://silverinsf.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26643528.post-39023003544881272022009-06-14T07:46:36.889-07:002009-06-14T07:46:36.889-07:00Professor,
Thank you so much for posting this. I ...Professor,<br /><br />Thank you so much for posting this. I especially liked the selection on community spaces. My father is in real estate and works very hard to integrate community spaces into his projects -- a moving theater and restaurant complex with a covered courtyard in the middle, condos situated around a common yard. Now he's looking towards residential projects all built around a garden. I plan on purchasing that book for him for father's day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com