Nightstand 2013 — Week One

Merry New Year! What I’m reading this week (and if it’s something I’m reading for the first time or re-reading):

• “Bartleby, the Badass” by Billy Kimball (The New Yorker, November 26, 2012): Reading for the first time
• “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” by Herman Melville (1853): Re-reading
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982): Re-reading
• “Don’t Stop Running” by Cord Jefferson (The Awl, December 28, 2012): Reading for the first time
• “Natural Blues: Photographers Capture the Blues in Nature at Various Times of Day and Year” (Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, November-December 2012): Reading for the first time