This hour-long anthology of recent cuts is entitled Adam, Darwin & the Penguin (Yalla! Yalla! Google Translate!) so one can only presume El Rass (The Head) has his mind on relatively esoteric and important matters.
The rest of the time was spent watching late-night, often random episodes of various long-running anthology series.
They are the urban equivalent of the songs found on Harry Smith's anthology: long-lost songs by long-dead singers, dizzying in their variety and disorientingly bizarre.
But, despite its heft, this book can only provide a taster of what is now available on the web, and I wonder how long the printed anthology will continue to serve its purpose.
"A War, Before and After," was initiated and led by Roy Scranton — an Iraq veteran, writer and co-editor of "Fire and Forget: Short Stories From the Long War," an anthology of fiction by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans — who contacted and organized the contributors to this series.
Among a long list of anthologies, four versions of the Shunyasampadane are the most well-known.
Belinda McKeon and Claire Keegan have also won acclaim for novels exploring the changing mores of countryside and family, while the anthology The Long Gaze Back, published by New Island last month, showcases 30 stories by female writers including Christine Dwyer Hickey, Lucy Caldwell and Lia Mills.
Visibility still remains an issue, as VIDA statistics, Joanna Walsh's #readwomen campaign and this piece by Kamila Shamshie suggest, but in compiling The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, I was spoilt for choice.
The Glass Shore (New Island), edited by Sinead Gleeson, is a companion volume to last year's anthology, The Long Gaze Back, which brought many Irish female writers back into focus.
They are all on full display in Been Doon So Long (University of California Press, $34.95), an anthology — or "vinthology," as Mr. Grahm puts it — of several decades worth of literary satires, reveries, incessant yet clever puns and gnomic prognostications.
The writer, who was nominated for best of editor of an anthology for Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, later told the Guardian by email: "If fantasy as a genre truly wants to embrace all of its fans, and I believe it does, we can't keep lionising a man who used literature as a weapon against entire races.
