New reading/what I’m reading now

Another weekend trip to a branch of city library, more time in a shopping mall newsagency, so have some new reading:

• Latest issue of FilmInk magazine -has a feature on star actors who ‘sank’ a whole film by bad performance and an interview-based piece on Viggo Mortensen, surely one of the more interesting and versatile A-list actors who really do deserve A-list cred;
• Collection of poems by New York-based poet John Ashbery: A Worldly Country -new poems (Ecco, 2007);
• The Writer’s Idea Workshop (2003, Writer’s Digest) by Jack Heffron -full of writing prompts and very readable style;
• Folk Tales of Pakistan – ed. L Komal

The writting book has already had some positive effect – this afternoon I kept the PC logged off for a bit longer and settled at table with notepad & pencil, did a bit of “getting it down on paper” re: making an actual record of new ideas when they’re fresh.