dostoevsky + mcewan + dirty projectors + man without plan

I'm halfway through Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky, A Writer's Life. It's excellent, although Frank sometimes repeats his assertions, even ones which don't necessarily require firm assertion, within the space of a few pages.

Ian McEwan's Solar was a pleasurable read. It's always interesting to read an author work against an ideology in which they believe, and the way McEwan has gone about it -- putting the means to save humanity from climate change in the hands of a gluttonous, vainglorious lecher -- is painfully believable.

Norman Music Festival is this weekend. I'm attending, and look forward to seeing some new bands, in addition to the Dirty Projectors.

Man Without Plan, a band I discovered on Band Camp, owns pretty hard.