I gave up on the Diaz book. The plot wasn't holding my interest. I didn't really like the prose.

After reading the interview with Jennifer Egan, I had a dream that I found her books on a shelf in a used bookstore. I took it as a sign and went to the library and checked out The Keep.

Last week I went through my amazon.com wishlist and ordered all the books I could find for a penny. This is what I got:

Cake by Sandra Newman (Have been waiting 3 years to read this. Had to order it from England. It's not available anywhere in the US. Not that I found. She taught my fiction writing class at Temple. But that was before I knew who she was. After the class ended I checked her first book out of the library on a whim, read it in 2 days, loved it, and proceeded to feel like a stupid piece of shit for writing shitty crap in her class. How embarrassing. But during a meeting, I explained to her that I'm a poet, and maybe that's excuse enough.)

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson (I kind of really look up to her. In ways.)

This is Not Chick Lit edited by Elizabeth Merrick (To feed my addiction to women writers. Huge, massive fan of women writers. Good ones. Somehow this makes me a feminist, but if I were to read poetry and literature written by only men this would make me normal. No one would think anything of it. Of course she's reading a book written by a man. Just as anyone should.)

Poets Teaching Poets (ordered for my workshop. Looks boring.)

White Elephants by Reetika Vazirani (to satisfy my craving for Indian and Middle Eastern female poets, and my fascination with poets who commit suicide.)

Can't wait to quit my job and spend the day reading under a tree.