Member: languagehat
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About meFreelance editor living in the Pioneer Valley (Massachusetts).
About my libraryLarge holdings in languages, Russian, classics, travel, history, reference, poetry, literature, Africa, science fiction, Vietnam, music, &c; I'm entering them in more or less that order, with whimsical exceptions.
Dec. 15, 2005: All the books in my house have now been catalogued (barring the possible discovery of a few forgotten here and there, lost among my wife's books or behind bookcases), for a provisional total of 3,978. Don't weep for my not reaching the 4,000 mark; I've got at least several dozen more still boxed up in my father's garage in California, which will eventually bring the total comfortably over that milestone. I'm still only #12 at LibraryThing, though; I take my hat off to theraven.
Feb. 16, 2006: Just got the first of several dozen boxes of books and magazines from my parents' garage in Santa Barbara, hence the sudden upsurge in my book count; there should be a couple of hundred additions (mostly '60s sf paperbacks) by the time the influx has been fully accounted for.
GroupsAmerican Civil War, Baseball, Fans of Russian authors, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift, Language, Maps and Atlases, Nabokov!, Proust, Russian books and language, Slavic Languages
Favorite authorsAnna Akhmatova, John Ashbery, W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Andrei Bely, John Berryman, Paul Blackburn, Yves Bonnefoy, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Brodsky, Ivan Bunin, Basil Bunting, Lewis Carroll, Hayden Carruth, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Creeley, Avram Davidson, Helen DeWitt, Emily Dickinson, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lawrence Durrell, George Eliot, Venedikt Erofeev, William Faulkner, Elena Ferrante, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Frost, Gaito Gazdanov, Jean-Luc Godard, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Vasily Grossman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tessa Hadley, Dashiell Hammett, Anthony Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Aleksandr Herzen, Marshall G. S. Hodgson, James Hogg, Alan Hollinghurst, Homer, James Joyce, Valentin Kataev, Robert Kelly, Walt Kelly, Hugh Kenner, Daniil Charms, Peter Kropotkin, R. A. Lafferty, Ann Leckie, Nikolai Leskov, Christopher Logue, Audre Lorde, Hugh MacDiarmid, Osip Mandelstam, Olivia Manning, Hilary Mantel, Irina Mashinskaya, Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Yuri Nagibin, Lorine Niedecker, Patrick O'Brian, Flann O'Brien, Alexander Ostrovsky, Boris Pasternak, Saint-John Perse, Aleksey Pisemsky, Andrey Platonov, Ezra Pound, Richard Powers, Marcel Proust, Alexander Pushkin, Raymond Queneau, Valentin Rasputin, Mary Renault, Charles Reznikoff, Dorothy M. Richardson, Theodore Roethke, Frank Samperi, Sappho, Giorgos Seferis, Victor Serge, William Shakespeare, Zadie Smith, Sasha Sokolov, Laurence Sterne, Wallace Stevens, Tom Stoppard, Arkady Strugatsky, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Yuri Trifonov, Anthony Trollope, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain, A. F. Vel'tman, Richard Wilbur, Jonathan Williams, William Carlos Williams, Ellen Willis, P. G. Wodehouse, Gene Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Louis Zukofsky (Shared favorites)
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Favorite bookstoresTroubadour Books
Homepagehttp://www.languagehat.com
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Real nameStephen Dodson
LocationHadley, MA
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Member sinceSep 5, 2005
Currently readingZoo, or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Shklovsky
The Kremlin Ball by Curzio Malaparte
Пушкинский дом by Андрей Георгиевич Битов
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
