I will not be posting next week because I’m in seclusion. I’m taking the following books with me, which I may or may not get around to reading:

• The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution by Walter Truett Anderson
• The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
• The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett
• The Ethnic Food Lover’s Companion: A Sourcebook for Understanding the Cuisines of the World by Eve Zibart

My music player is loaded with BBC’s The Sound of 2009:

• The Big Pink
• Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun
• Lungs by Florence and The Machine
• Complete Me by Frankmusik
• A Kid Named Cudi by Kid Cudi
• La Roux
• The Fame by Lady Gaga
• Hands by Little Boots
• Manners by Passion Pit
• Conditions by The Temper Trap
• Traveling Like the Light by VV Brown
• To Lose My Life by White Lies