Don

My story, “The Wholecoiner” donhoughauthor.blogspot.com/…

A couple David Foster Wallace letters published in Harper’s, November 2008

Found some random movie soundtracks at the thrift store this week, 50 cents each

Workshopping an interpretation that Celine never loved Jesse at any point in the Before trilogy

Criterion flash sale haul

The last paragraph of Cynthia Ozick’s introduction to Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day (which she wrote in 1996)

Anyone else reading this one?

“James Miley” jfc wsj 😂

Got all these blus at the thrift store this week, $1.75 each. The big ones: Criterion Fisher King and a 4k Steelbook of Groundhog Day

Found at the thrift store for one dollar

Obligatory picture of the thing

Saw Social Reckoning yesterday (3 stars), getting a bunch of Criterions in the flash sale, watching the Celtics open the NBA season later today, Table for Fortune should be delivered tomorrow, and I’m prepping the tenth-anniversary edition of my first novel. Such a pleasant week!

New book purchases: recommendations from friends, new copies of old favorites, filling out my Cormac gaps so I can read the biography, writing inspiration

Never thought we’d get an Amazons reissue before a new edition of Darconville’s Cat

On a train to go see Andrew Martin! Have him sign some of his books (and give him a couple to take home 🙂)

My top 5 documentaries: Hoop Dreams Stone Reader Tabloid The King of Kong That Moment: Magnolia Diary

For a second I thought criterion was releasing one of my fav guilty pleasures

My favorite moment so far in the new Love is Blind season is when a guy tells a girl he loves Eyes Wide Shut and she tells him she does too

I thought Lance Oppenheim was Joshua Oppenheimer until about 45 seconds ago