What I’m Reading (or, trying to read…)

15 September

“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

“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