Bought some books the other day:

-Watchmen, by Alan Moore. Yes, it is a graphic novel. Yes, it is freakin' amazing. Yes, you should check it out.

-Desolation Angels, by Jack Kerouac. An impulse buy - cover said something about religion and the beats. Related-The originial unedited manuscript of On the Road will be released by the end of the year. Cool I guess, but I knew when Kerouac was talking about drugs and sex, didn't you?

-Ethics, by Spinoza. It was cheap and I wanted a copy for my shelf, and also so I could read it alongside Levinas. Difficult when approached wholistically, but brilliant when approached piecemeal.

-Selected Poems by Borges, by Jorge Luis Borges. Contains some of the most brilliant poetry I've ever read. The man was amazing - he did everything someone like Hesse did, only in verse.

-McSweeney's #19. Haven't opened it yet. Came wrapped in a cigar-box, innovative. I'm sure it's great, but I'm not lending you my copy.

I'll be writing something soon about Watchmen on booksnotbombs. It was ridiculously intense. Some consider it one of the top novels of the century. Maybe. Maybe not. But it's the most impressive thing I've read in ages.