Miscellany re: "No Country...".

1. Cormac McCarthy's official website: cormacmccarthy.com.
   
2. The New Yorker review, by James Wood: "Red Planet."
   
3. Village Voice review, by James Browning: "Motel Fix."
4. NPR review, by Alan Cheuse: "All Things Considered."
   
5. Lastly, anyone make any headway on the novel's title (specifically, its origins)? *Bonus Opp: find out where it comes from and why it's relevant to the novel.
   

Reader's Log entries for Friday, 2.22.

Before class meets, post your Reader's Log entry for Friday 2.22 here.

Reader's Log entries for Thursday, 2.21.

Post your Reader's Log entry for Thursday 2.21 here. (Do so before class meets.) So that you don't risk losing your entry, type it in a Word document first, then copy and paste it into this post's comment form below.

Taking "In Rotation" requests.

What's getting heavy play in your rotation? Hard bop? Dub and rock steady? Alt-rock and rock-a-billy? Ambient? Swedish black metal? Show tunes? The Juno soundtrack?

Who's getting heavy play in your rotation? All the Usual Tropes? The Deadly Potholes? DoppleGangstas? Perpetuating Irony? Ryan Hogan & the Pillar of Bees? Trapdoor Survivalists? The Wounded Butterflies?

Post a group or artist, song, or genre that you'd like for me to add to the "In Rotation" section of the sidebar at right.

On your marks, get set ...

Tricycle Championship.

Week's End Info.

For tomorrow, Friday 2.8 ...

1. Bring Everything is Illuminated to class; be prepared to discuss and bring finality to the text.
2. Bring your new book (No Country for Old Men or Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), having read your first night's worth of reading.
3. Turn in Jonathan's family tree for bonus points.

For Monday, 2.11 ...

1. Follow your circle's reading skedj.
2. Accept the email invite to create your blog account, which will give you authorship privileges.

Other things ...

1. Anyone see Jack or Max's Reader's Logs? Jack's is a blue Composition notebook; Max's is red.
2. Your Reader's Logs are to be submitted next Thursday, 2.14.
   
3. I'll have your first Snapshots back to you on Monday.
   

Beginning Thursday ...

New Circles.

Also, here are some web resources on Jonathan Safran Foer, some of which we looked at toward the end of Monday's class:

• Interview: Author discusses Everything is Illuminated.
• JSF official site: The Project Museum.
• JSF bio.
• The Village Voice interviews the author regarding Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: "Everything is Interrogated."
  
• A scathing review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: "Extremely Cloying & Incredibly False."
• "My Life as a Dog," a JSF New York Times op-ed piece.

Augsburg College Invitational Reading.

On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Augsburg College will host its 23rd Annual High School Invitational Reading. All high school students are invited to submit their best work. You may submit up to two poems and/or one prose piece. Winning submissions will earn an invite to a luncheon where students will read their work publicly. In addition, finalists will earn a Barnes & Noble's gift certificates and Augsburg t-shirts. Beyond that, the two best poets and two best prose writers will be awarded tickets to the Guthrie, Theater in the Round, or the Walker Art Center.

Guidelines for submissions:

• Submissions must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, typed or computer printed, in 12-point font, and double-spaced.
• Poetry submissions should not exceed 100 lines in length; prose submissions must not exceed four pages.
• All submissions should be suitable for public reading.
  

Submissions deadline is Wednesday, March 10, 2008.

Mail submission to:
Augsburg College
English Dept., C.B. 59
Attn: High School Invitational Reading
2211 Riverside Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454