silver light and shadow: Important Things

Friends. Sun. Carbs. Glasses and/or contacts. Childhood. Stamps. But friends are just great.

reads

Leaving the Antocha Station, Ben Lerner
Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
You Only Get Letters From Jail, Jodi Angel
The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure, Jack Handy
Inferno (a poet's novel), Eileen Myles
The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation, Fanny Howe
The Bridegroom Was a Dog, Yoko Tawada
How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Karolina Waclawiak
The Suitcase, Sergei Dovlatov
Twenty Questions, Alison Clement
Desperate Characters, Paula Fox
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Guardians: An Elegy, Sarah Manguso
Speedboat, Renata Adler
The Fun Parts, Sam Lipsyte
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever, Justin Taylor
Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, Charles Baxter
Look at Me, Anita Brookner
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart
Things You Should Know, A.M. Homes
The Liars' Club: A Memoir, Mary Karr
Escapes: Stories, Joy Williams
Driver's Education, Grant Ginder
Tenth of December: Stories, George Saunders
Economics: Stories, Fanny Howe
-----2013-----
How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life, Sheila Heti
Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin
The Bridgegroom: Stories, Ha Jin
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970, Revised 2nd Edition
Facing the Bridge, Yoko Tawada
This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
Where Europe Begins, Yoko Tawada
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
The Mulching of America, Harry Crews
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942, Richard Brautigan
Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Baby Geisha: Stories, Trinie Dalton
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, Deb Olin Unferth
Any Human Heart, William Boyd
Pee on Water, Rachel B. Glaser
Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer, Christine Schutt
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Two Girls: Fat and Thin, Mary Gaitskill
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud
The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams
Honored Guest, Joy Williams
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, Ben Fountain
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman
Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
Great House, Nicole Krauss
Don't Cry, Mary Gaitskill
--------2012--------
Because They Wanted To, Mary Gaitskill
Homeland, Sam Lipsyte
On Writing, Stephen King
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill
Twenty Grand, Rebecca Curtis
The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Rape New York, Jana Leo
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
Half a Life, Darin Strauss
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
A Visit From the Good Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Safety of Objects, A.M. Holmes
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- - - - 2011 - - - - -
In the Western Night, poems by Frank Bidart
Muscular Music, poems by Terence Hayes
The Kingfisher, poems by Amy Clampitt
What Work Is, poems by Philip Levine
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby, Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Civilwarland in Bad Decline, George Saunders
Pleasure Dome, poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
Drown, Junot Diaz
Diving Into the Wreck, poems by Adrienne Rich
Transbluesency, poems by Amiri Baraka
Strike Sparks, poems by Sharon Olds
Some Ether, poems by Nick Flynn
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Speak Low, poems by Carl Phillips
The Cloud Corporation, poems by Timothy Donnelly
Marry Me, John Updike
Little Children, Tom Perrotta
Airships, Barry Hannah
Geography III, poems by Elizabeth Bishop
Collected Poems, CK Williams
The Book of Light, poems by Lucille Clifton
Early Collected Poems, Gerald Stern
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill
The Pharmacist's Mate, Amy Fusselman
Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison
In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
Pieces for the Left Hand. J. Robert Lennon
The Complete Maus, Art Spiegelman
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
Little Birds, Erotica by Anais Nin
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, Mark McGurl
New Grub Street, George Gissing
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, DFW
Exit Wounds, Rutu Modan
The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, Mark Gluth
Old School, Tobias Wolff
Walks with Men, Ann Beattie
One D.O.A., One on the Way: A Novel, Mary Robison
Lost Illusions, Balzac
Black Hole, Charles Burns
Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link
Pastoralia, George Saunders
--- 2010 ! New list ! ---
I Want You, Lisa Hanawalt
Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (Ben, from the KU Writing Center, you were right yet again)
Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Daniel Clowes
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
In Persuasion Nation, George Saunders (again)
Summer Blonde, Adriane Tomine
The Early Stories, John Updike (most)
Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware (!!)
Grab Bag, Derek McCormack (*Akashic)
Pnin, Nabokov
Success, Martin Amis
Poolsaid, Shya Scanlon
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (meh.)
Bicycle, Paul Fattaruso (*Akashic)
A Model World and Other Stories, Michael Chabon (meh.)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Sam the Cat and other Stories, Matthew Klam
The Ravenous Audience, poems by Kate Durbin (*Akashic Book)
The Lunatic, Anthony C. Winkler (*Akashic Book)
Arkansas, John Brandon
What I Know So Far, Gordon Lish
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Demons in the Spring, Joe Meno (*Akashic Book)
The Informers, Bret Easton Ellis
The Slynx, Tatyana Tolstaya
The Acme Novelty Library #18, Chris Ware
Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs, Ellen Kennedy
Abortion and Life, Jennifer Baumgardner (*Akashic Books)
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme
Wide Eyed, Trinie Dalton (*Akashic Book)
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
You’re an Animal Viskovitz!, Alessandro Boffa (Translated by John Casey)
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature, Diane Williams
Song for Night, A Novella by Chris Abani (*Akashic Book)
Eeeee Eee Eeee, Tao Lin
The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus
The Boy Detective Fails, Joe Meno (*Akashic Book)
--- 2009 ! New list ! ---
Getting Jesus in the Mood, Anne Brashler
Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
Almost No Memory, Lydia Davis
Vacation, Deb Olin Unferth
Sixty Stories, Donald Barthelme
Rent Girl, Michelle Tea
Chilly Scenes of Winter, Ann Beattie
Jesus’ Son, stories by Denis Johnson
Molloy, Samuel Beckett (“But I preferred to abide by my simple feeling and its voice that said, Molloy, your region is vast, you have never left it, and you never shall.” Reading Molloy felt like exercise or slowly going insane.)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
145 Stories in a Small Box (Includes 3 books: Minor Robberies, Deb Olin Unferth; Harder to Admit and Harder to Escape, Sarah Manguso; How the Water Feels to the Fishes, Dave Eggers)
The Pisstown Chaos, David Ohle
Poem for the End of Time, And Other Poems, Noelle Kocot
How to Be Alone, collected essays by Jonathan Franzen
Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret
Super Flat Times, Mathew Derby
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
The Artist of the Living, Paul La Farge
--- late summer 2008 start ---

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Important Things

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