Peter Blair Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Peter Blair

Joan Didion's packing list for her first book tour: "I had left California equipped with two 'good' suits, a box of unanswered mail, Elizabeth Hardwick's 'Seduction and Betrayal,' Edmund Wilson's 'To the Finland Station,' six Judy Blume books and my eleven-year-old daughter."

Peter Blair

@of_Forgetting Denys Turner and Brian Davies are in the McCabe lineage. Turner's book directly about Aquinas has great stuff. I might have some other recs depending on our interests (e.g. if you have a specific slice of philosophy or theology in mind)

Peter Blair

@second_sailing “Probiotics: The Basis of Culture” by Josef Pieper’s lesser know little brother, Kevin Pieper

Peter Blair

Just finished watching Dune in the theaters (first time I watched it streaming) and it struck me again how the least welcome, though not “worst,” line in the script was when they overlaid this Brainy Quote moment over one of Paul’s visions https://t.co/V5zTFr3nON

Peter Blair

Currently reading A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark Pages from the Goncourt Journals Recently: Dante the Theologian by Denys Turner The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Next: The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (maybe) https://t.co/Hn7e0aGQHv

Peter Blair

@wife_geist I assume you may have read The Haunting of Hill House but if not that’s a good choice. I also really enjoyed Memento Mori by Muriel Spark this year

Peter Blair

@syriac_enjoyer Read BDM on John Williams and if you still want to read Stoner after finishing her piece you'll know it's a book for you: https://t.co/x5yL4mYykn

Peter Blair

“But no summer is so long, so wide, as the summer before it. Time, a river, hollows out its bed and every year the river flows in a narrower channel and flows faster.” (Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner that Held Them) https://t.co/YzlMOhy3SU

Peter Blair

Currently reading A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark Pages from the Goncourt Journals Recently: Dante the Theologian by Denys Turner The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Next: The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (maybe) https://t.co/Hn7e0aGQHv

Peter Blair

@natalie_morrill Of ones I've at least partially read, The Hall of Uselessness by Simon Leys and The Hunter Gracchus by Guy Davenport (Geography of the Imagination by Davenport is his more central book it seems, but I haven't gotten a copy yet)