Quote de jour
"Magazines all to frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature."
~Fran Lebowitz

As always, it's a grab bag of mainstream mags like Vogue and Newsweek to more esoteric choices like the wonderfully quirky, Iceland Review. Politics and Wall Street money woes are front and center.

The two books are a mix of literary hi-lo. The best selling bio on Madonna by her brother Christopher Ciccone is no doubt, ghost written but is as engaging as watching a train wreck. It's a portrait of iron-fisted ambition. It's no mean feat to claw your way to the top but stay there for over twenty-five years by re-invention is what fascinates me.
For a dose a decent writing, I'm enjoying Irish writer, Anne Enright's latest, Yesterday's Weather. She won the coveted Man Booker prize for fiction last year with The Gathering. Yesterday's Weather is a collection of stories written over the the past nineteen years. She manages to create memorable characters at cross roads with wit and tenderness.