Better Than Friday - 88 (Patreon)

Hi ya'll, hope you're having a nice evening, I'm in the middle of packing and moving (joy) but got a review in the can of 'To the Lighthouse' today, hope you enjoy when it comes out soon. 

Hope you're having a beautiful Spring. 

1. Book in the Pipeline - The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake 

This fellow has come up several times, got a copy recently and looking forward to it. 

A collection of short stories that memorably capture American life in rural Appalachia by Breece D'J Pancake, the brilliant writer praised by Joyce Carol Oates as "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's." Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace. "Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting." --Margaret Atwood

- Amazon

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising writing career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. A collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake has remained continuously in print and is a perennial favorite among aspiring writers, participants in creative writing programs, and students of contemporary American fiction. "Trilobites", the first of Pancake's stories to be published in The Atlantic, elicited an extraordinary immediate response from readers and continues to be widely anthologized.

- Goodreads

2. Shostokavich - Symphony No. 10 

This sounds totally pretentious but I was lifting weights and this came on...and it was excellent. Helps with that leg press. 

Terrific live performance here. 

3. Ken Burns Hemingway Documentary 

I haven't seen it myself, though I heard this was good. 

SPOILER WARNING - I've been informed by a friend that it contains spoilers to some of Hemingway's books such as A Farewell to Arms, the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilmanjaro, and The Sun Also Rises. 

4. Blind Wine Tasting Videos 

SevenFifty Daily is a Youtube channel where wine professionals taste, analyze, and try to identify a wine. 

I've become fascinated with this whole process recently...This is one with one of the fellows who was in the documentary Somm. 

5. Robert Frost Poem - Nothing Gold Can Stay 

My wife told me about this one. 

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.