Books

Well hello there! Did you miss us? Well, what can I say, things have been busy down here at LHNA HQ. Paint, flea markets, furniture building and lots of random flights are partly to blame, but mostly it’s just me. The mood hasn’t, you know, taken me. The old muse has been an apathetic...
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When I was in second or third grade, my mother gave me a set of books on Greek mythology. Whether it was her genuine love for ancient Greek culture (she was certainly always going on about how things are better over there as I was growing up – my grandmother used to tease her...
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Illustrations by Marcel Dzama. * Night Out with LHNA: A Mixtape With a Very Obvious Theme. 1. Cults – Go Outside 2. Tilly and the Wall – Nights of the Living Dead So it's Friday night down on North Avenue  Where the gas-station-parking-lot prostitutes Will try to fix their hair in our rear view...
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Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through our cries, our murmured dawn conspiracies our telephone calls. She knows - what can she know? If in my own arrogance I claim to read her eyes, I find there only my own animal thoughts: that creatures must find each other...
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Photo credit: Miles Aldridge Lately, in the morning hours, you’ll sometimes find me playing the shit out of these songs: Beach House – Used to Be Beat Circus – Boy From Black Mountain Colour – Over the Moon * Owen Pallett – Keep the Dog Quiet But that’s not all I do. I’ve also...
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1. “I Know This Much Is True” by Wally Lamb Recommended for: people who like depressing books, people with an interest in mental illnesses or twins, people who like complex, daring, good books in general I don’t know what I can say about this book that will make you go and read it NOW....
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When candles light themselves and the air turns creamy Why not take a photograph? You look so dreamy Then stand in the blackness, smile at the tinkling Blinded by lovedust; what did I see? A million, a billion, a trillion stars. Otouto – Sushi Luna – Lovedust Back in Judy’s Shack – The Puff,...
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The BBC National Short Story Award is apparently “the largest award for a single short story in the world.” The largest in prize-money because in terms of fame I can’t say I even heard of it before I chanced upon their website the other day. Now book prizes have been known to succeed in...
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Some time last week I happened to find myself on Soft Hearted Scientists’ official site where, YES!, I finally found what I wish every band I love, like or even consider mildly entertaining would have on their websites: a “Likes and Dislikes” section. Why doesn’t every band on the planet do this? Don’t they...
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I usually keep my book reviews separate from my song reviews. I use Librarything for the former and Letters Have No Arms for the latter. But I figured it’s wort breaking this rule from time to time – perhaps only in favour of 5-star books (ok, I rated it 4.5 actually, not 5, but...
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* North by North * * Polaroid Solution * First lose the light, then the train, and as the great boxed-in shadow of yourselves takes out whole cornfields, wordlessly agree to right-crossed journey-legs. Corn. What’s it to you, now your shadow snaps in half the flood-lit steeples? Unvisitable towns wave their plastic welcome mat...
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* For those of you who like to read, you should know that Letters Have No Arms has joined Bookmooch. This is our profile, take a look at our inventory and see if there’s anything you might want. We’re giving away Great Expectations, The Little Friend, Women in Love, Jane Eyre and A Boy’s...
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Awesome songs about books, everyone. 1. Akron/Family – Franny/You’re Human “Please Lord give me strength to be nobody ’cause I am not my thoughts’ (“Franny and Zooey” by J. D. Salinger) * 2. Modest Mouse – Bukowski “Woke this morning and it seemed to me That every night turns out to be a little...
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*** Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of...
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‘It Is Finally Time to Tell the Story’ was written by Dave Eggers I would guess sometime in 2004 (and is kind of relevant what with all this elections-talk in the U.S.). Find it in ‘Short Short Stories‘. ‘Yes, it is finally time to tell the story about the sheep from that one island...
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