...is mostly books, and gym stuff, since there are two gyms near the courthouse. I searched several used bookstores* for a paperback copy of Infinite Jest, which I could rip into more portable chunks. But I learned an obvious lesson: if you go to a used bookstore with a specific book in mind, you're setting yourself up for failure. Here's what I discovered instead:
(Blacklist trivia: The blacklist era didn't end until the director Otto Preminger openly hired Dalton Trumbo, one of the original Hollywood Ten, to write the script for Exodus, a 1960 movie about the founding of Israel. Preminger's sleek, modernist house was across the street from mine. I'm looking at its English/Portuguese replacement right now.)
* Shopping credits: East Village Books, 101 St Mark's Pl (1st & A); Bookleaves, 304 W 4th St.
