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I don't like fiction unless it's trying to push the limits of the form. I can read Ulysses, but i often have trouble suspending belief when it comes to more orthodox stuff. It helps to read in a foreign language that i'm not so great at. That way the struggle with words occupies my mind, and i don't end up asking myself why a narrator is narrating at me. WG Sebald was good.
I generally don't enjoy poetry, but i do like theatre. I grew up going to the movies every Sat., but i'm finding movies less and less compelling. (Why do multi-millionaires bother making stuff like Indy Jones XLII?) There are still some things worth seeing, but usually the movies i enjoy are the old ones.
I go for rumours, word of mouth, philosophy, critiques of political economy, sociology (Bourdieu is my beach reading), magazines & journals. I used to read newspapers, but i generally don't bother anymore. It seems like the decent ones have all folded. I do read a few non-US papers on-line.
We listen to a lot of community radio, too.
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