I had hoped to read a lot of commentary and observations about JR this week as a nice finalization to the summer reading. But a couple of things happened. First, we went on vacation, so JR was the furthest thing from my mind. Second, I had a really hard time finding commentary.
I somehow missed the whole Goodreads discussion—which I read just the other day and enjoyed. And I also had a really hard time with the LARB tumblr account. I don’t know if this speaks to tech non-savvy, but man, that’s a hard thing to search. It took several tries before I noticed the teeny search window at the bottom, and when I finally got it to search what I wanted I found the results less than spectacular. So I was able to piece together most of Lee’s comments, which I rather liked, but I wish I had been able to read them as we went along (Googling #OccupGaddis only brought that initial tumblr page, which was very frustrating). (more…)