“In the Bag” has been temporarily suspended due to excessive life-related activity, but Household Opera is playing a similar game today. If the storm troopers came marching into your town, which books would you stuff in your backpack? It’s a nice, practical game, which is what makes it interesting. No less interesting is her list–Ashbery, Austen, Barthes, Bishop, Borges, Herbert, Puttenham (?!), Stevens, Woolf–which you can peruse by clicking here.
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
