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"[t]here is no substitute for reading. Hearing something aloud is its own experience, but it's hard to beat sitting in bed or in a comfortable chair turning the pages of a book, putting it down, and eagerly awaiting the chance to get back to it."
July 21, 2010 NYT interview about recording audiobooks of his four essay collections.
-- sdh
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
I could not agree more. So would Paul Goodman. (You know Woody Allen mentions him in Annie Hall?)
Posted by: Paulgoodmanfilm | July 21, 2010 at 01:23 PM
Thanks.
Posted by: Eric Bourland | July 21, 2010 at 01:25 PM
Hear, hear.
I don't remember the mention of Paul Goodman in "Annie Hall," but I'm not surprised that Woody would like him. Goodman is, among other things, a greatly undervalued poet, and it was a pleasure including his work in "The Oxford Book of American Poetry."
Posted by: DL | July 21, 2010 at 11:26 PM
I agree with this quote, but Woody Allen creeps me out big time, like the quintessential dirty old man.
Posted by: Laura Orem | July 22, 2010 at 12:25 PM