Member pitjrw

Real Name

James

About Me

I am a city kid who lived on a farm for most of the last forty years. Reminds me of Gary Snyder's poem "Hay for the Horses". A lapsed baseball fan and altar boy.

Location

Wilkinsburg, PA

Memberships

TinyCat

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Currently Reading

Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy

The Holiness of Ordinary People by Madeleine Delbrel

Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Favorite Authors

Isaac Babel, Dorothy Dodds Baker, Reginald Horace Blyth, Albert Camus, Constantine P. Cavafy, Emily Dickinson, Jenny Erpenbeck, Penelope Fitzgerald, Paula Fox, Jack Gilbert, Vasily Grossman, Homer, Tove Jansson, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Stanisław Lem, Yōko Ogawa, John Dos Passos, Walker Percy, Kenneth Rexroth, Rainer Maria Rilke, Steven Runciman, Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, Gary Snyder, Stendhal, Arkady Strugatsky, Antal Szerb, Wislawa Szymborska, James Tate, Olga Tokarczuk, Leo Tolstoy, Eliot Weinberger, Christa Wolf, William Wordsworth

Favorite Lists

1:28 p.m.'s 350 Stage Plays Challenge, Best 21st Century Books (So Far), Favorite Childhood Books

Member Connections

Friends

southernbooklady, wildbill

Interesting Library

jennifersoule, PittsburghFilmmakers, wildbill