Speaking of reading, I signed up for a course in Culture of the Jazz Age. Readings by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and more, plus a section on the blues. Sounded great. Got the reading list today. It's all the stuff we had to read in high school ("The Sun Also Rises," which I loathe, as well as "Great Gatsby" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God," which I love, though I've read them both multiple times). Then there was the unannounced "Sound and the Fury," which we apparently have only one week to read. I don't remember it being "Jazz Age."
But I think I need to get started asap.