Source: Powell's Books
During the spring and summer of 2003, in preparation for a trip to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, I specifically began reading place fictions before my trips. It is a pleasurable habit. (I've even written a place literature index.) I think literature, especially fiction, is a great way to learn about people and places - cities, neighborhoods, ecologies, and ways of living.
I include a
library link at the end of each post. Library Thing holds a catalogue of some of my books about cities and neighborhoods. I have been desperately searching for a used copy of Michael Chabon's
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. I have checked the shelves of my favorite Berkeley used book shops. If push comes to shove, the University Press Books has new copies. If I don't find it here, maybe I will find a used copy during my visit to Pittsburgh this summer.
Here's my latest
short stack of books, listed here in no particular order:
The Richer, the Poorer, Dorothy West
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit
Letters from Yellowstone, Diane Smith
Bump City, John Krich
Source: Powell's Books
During the spring and summer of 2003, in preparation for a trip to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, I specifically began reading place fictions before my trips. It is a pleasurable habit. (I've even written a place literature index.) I think literature, especially fiction, is a great way to learn about people and places - cities, neighborhoods, ecologies, and ways of living.
I include a library link at the end of each post. Library Thing holds a catalogue of some of my books about cities and neighborhoods. I have been desperately searching for a used copy of Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. I have checked the shelves of my favorite Berkeley used book shops. If push comes to shove, the University Press Books has new copies. If I don't find it here, maybe I will find a used copy during my visit to Pittsburgh this summer.
Here's my latest short stack of books, listed here in no particular order:
The Richer, the Poorer, Dorothy West
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit
Letters from Yellowstone, Diane Smith
Bump City, John Krich