What I am reading
I don't know if people keep track of the "Reading:" block down there, but I am currently reading Phoebe Gloeckner's "Diary of a Teenage Girl," and it's really good. She draws beautifully (it's a novel with integrated comics), and writes well, and it's a disturbing, thoughtful, beautiful book, blurring the lines between autobiography and fiction - a photo of Gloeckner herself as a teenager appears on the front cover, identified inside as the "real Minnie Goetz," the protagonist of the book. I was really affected by this work. Highly recommended.