Shelf Tour 6: Ghosts of Seattle past

Hey everybody! For some reason this one got uploaded weird. Actually I know the reason. I meant to schedule the upload but I didn't, I just made it immediately public. So it went live before the video it was supposed to follow. My fix is that I'm changing this one to episode 6 and changing the monopoly box one to be episode 7.
Please enjoy and let me know in the comments how you feel / what you think / what you're reading!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Yes, Dazai will make you sad. That's how you know it's literature. The characters in his fiction are a mess, he himself redefined "trainwreck". But his novels, short stories, and autobiographical essays are worth it.

[@TheBookedEscapePlan]

"Krapp's Last Tape" was my first Beckett. I was a teenager. I loved it. Tobias Smollet's translation of "Don Quixote" is the one I first read as a kid and is the one I am most attached to; I first read it in a B&N paperback and it introduced me to Gustave Dore's illustrations. I read Putnam's last year and have never laughed so hard. Putnam's is very good.

[@leafyconcern]

I plan to reread Krapp’s soon! Thanks for the Putnam rec Glad to have you on team Smollett!

[@TheBookedEscapePlan]

@@leafyconcern I've read the Grossman as well; I read it a couple of years ago when I came across a hardcover and paperback on the same day and picked up both copies so I could give one to a co-worker who collects editions of Don Quixote since it is his favorite book. Your experience with Henry James is wild to me, by the way; "Wings of the Dove" is one of his novels that got me into his writing. I would love to read Sebald on Robert Walser. I must find that book.

[@leafyconcern]

@@TheBookedEscapePlan yes, you’ve got to read it. “The traces Robert Walser on his path through life were so faint as to have almost been effaced altogether.” “…even when the demand for his pieces slows down, he writes on, day after day, right up to the pain threshold and often, so I imagine, a fair way beyond it.”

[@TheBookedEscapePlan]

@@leafyconcern Some day Sebald on Walser will become a part of my library of criticism. Speaking of which: Just this morning I was reading Vendler on Ammons in a volume titled "Soul Says," a trade paperback from the 90's. Have you read it?

[@leafyconcern]

@@TheBookedEscapePlan no I haven’t! Sounds good though