What I’m Reading (or, trying to read…)
17 February 2010
“The Possessed” by Edif Batuman
“Dialectic of Enlightenment” by Horkheimer & Adorno
“Redwall” by Brian Jacques
“On the Margin” by Aldous Huxley
“Acedia & Me” by Kathleen Norris
15 September 2008
“On Empire” by Eric Hobsbawm
“Finnegan’s Wake” by James Joyce
“Icarus at the Edge of Time” by Brian Greene
also, sadly re-reading the late David Foster Wallace‘s stories…
23 August 2008
“Lunch Poems” by Frank O’Hara
“Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller
31 July 2008
“The Varieties of Scientific Experience” by Carl Sagan
“The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” by Oscar Wilde
“The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus
The Lamentations of the prophet, Jeremiah
10 July 2008
“Collected Poems: 1912-1944″ of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
The Diary of Alice James
“Les Fleurs du Mal” by Charles Baudelaire
24 June 2008
“All The Sad Young Literary Men” by Keith Gessen
“The Misfortunes of Virtue” by the Marquis de Sade
12 June 2008
“Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy” by Barbara Ehrenreich
“William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism” by Robert D. Richardson
“Une Saison En Enfer”/”Lettres De Voyant” by Arthur Rimbaud
“Velvet Elvis” by Rob Bell
“The Quintessence of Debauchery” by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
“28: Stories of AIDS in Africa” by Stephanie Nolen
Marquis de Sade, intense stuff. Rimbaud and Baudelaire so fresh. And H.D., man great stuff, her marriage to Ezra Pound had to absoutly insane.
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