The latest Amazon purchases

BOOK BINGE: As many of you may know, I have a certain affinity for online booksellers. Although the Book Depository is good for one-item purchases (free shipping, you see), Amazon is easily the most affordable option if you're looking to buy any more than three or four. Over the last two days, I have engaged in two separate sprees of this sort. Among the purchased books: American Pastoral, Philip Roth; East of Eden, John Steinbeck; Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote; Junk, William S. Burroughs; Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg; Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche; The Outsider, Albert Camus; The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud; Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs; The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon; Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut; A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway; On the Road, Jack Kerouac; The Complete Novels of George Orwell (including Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and Nineteen Eighty-Four); finally, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe. I'm looking forward to reading. Sorry, by the way, about the lack of posting today. It has been unusually busy for some reason.