October 8th, 2009 / 10:22 am
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What are you reading right now?

I am reading these two books right now:


Henri Bergson – Matter and Memory


Walter Abish – Eclipse Fever

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179 Comments

  1. davidpeak

      i have the diagram for bergon’s cone of pure perception tattooed on my right arm. no joke.

  2. davidpeak

      i have the diagram for bergon’s cone of pure perception tattooed on my right arm. no joke.

  3. Kevin O'Neill

      Paul Auster: Moon Palace (teaching).
      John Foot: Calcio, A History of Italian Football (long-term education).
      David Foster Wallace: The Broom of the System (was on my shelf and somehow ended up in my hands).
      Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (classics education).

  4. Kevin O'Neill

      Paul Auster: Moon Palace (teaching).
      John Foot: Calcio, A History of Italian Football (long-term education).
      David Foster Wallace: The Broom of the System (was on my shelf and somehow ended up in my hands).
      Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (classics education).

  5. Morningstar

      Oh, you know, flipping through my vast library of Herta Müller’s excellent work.

  6. Morningstar

      Oh, you know, flipping through my vast library of Herta Müller’s excellent work.

  7. david

      Cockroach, by Rawi Hage
      Scorch Atlas, by Blake Butler
      Things We Didn’t See Coming, by Steven Amsterdam
      The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, by Robert Henryson

  8. david

      Cockroach, by Rawi Hage
      Scorch Atlas, by Blake Butler
      Things We Didn’t See Coming, by Steven Amsterdam
      The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, by Robert Henryson

  9. valerie

      buddha 6 ananda by osamu tezuka just got 7& 8 in the mail. no i’m not fourteen.

  10. valerie

      buddha 6 ananda by osamu tezuka just got 7& 8 in the mail. no i’m not fourteen.

  11. stu

      London Fields by Martin Amis.

      In line: God Hates Us All by the fictional character Hank Moody

  12. stu

      London Fields by Martin Amis.

      In line: God Hates Us All by the fictional character Hank Moody

  13. mimi

      From the AP (via Yahoo News – Ya – hoo – oo!):
      Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told The Associated Press this week that the secretive Swedish Academy had been too “eurocentric” in picking winners.
      His predecessor, Horace Engdahl, stirred up heated emotions across the Atlantic when he told the AP in 2008 that “Europe still is the center of the literary world” and the quality of U.S. writing was dragged down because authors were “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.”
      After Mueller was announced, he told AP that “If you are European (it is) easier to relate to European literature. It’s the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It’s not the result of any program.”

  14. mimi

      From the AP (via Yahoo News – Ya – hoo – oo!):
      Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told The Associated Press this week that the secretive Swedish Academy had been too “eurocentric” in picking winners.
      His predecessor, Horace Engdahl, stirred up heated emotions across the Atlantic when he told the AP in 2008 that “Europe still is the center of the literary world” and the quality of U.S. writing was dragged down because authors were “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.”
      After Mueller was announced, he told AP that “If you are European (it is) easier to relate to European literature. It’s the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It’s not the result of any program.”

  15. joe

      Mount Analogue by Renee Daumal, which I can’t recommend enough. (His letter to Breton is interesting too: condemns the surrealists as mostly a joke concerned with posterity and being read decades later.) Pan by Knut Hamsun. Three by Ann Quin. (1st comment.)

  16. joe

      Mount Analogue by Renee Daumal, which I can’t recommend enough. (His letter to Breton is interesting too: condemns the surrealists as mostly a joke concerned with posterity and being read decades later.) Pan by Knut Hamsun. Three by Ann Quin. (1st comment.)

  17. Drew

      That Wallace Stegner thing I mentioned in a post the other day, Life on the Mississippi, some nonfiction thing about the vikings, and this Rick Atkinson book about the Italian theater in dubya dubya two.

  18. Drew

      That Wallace Stegner thing I mentioned in a post the other day, Life on the Mississippi, some nonfiction thing about the vikings, and this Rick Atkinson book about the Italian theater in dubya dubya two.

  19. mimi

      Right now I am reading:
      The San Francisco Poets (from the Oakland Public Library Dimond branch, to teach)
      Just finished: Shoplifting from American Apparel
      Just started: Cane by Jean Toomer
      Just guiltily purchased at Barnes and Noble: Mind Wide Open (liked very much Everything Bad Is Good for You a few years ago)
      Just loaned to me by a friend: The World Without Us
      On my nightstand: toooooo many to list here, unless anyone reaaalllllyy wants to know…. I’ll carry my laptop into my bedroom and list directly…..must be about thirty…..I’d be interested myself…..)
      Also checked out from the library: The Broom of the System
      Want very much to read and must order: Scorch Atlas

  20. mimi

      Right now I am reading:
      The San Francisco Poets (from the Oakland Public Library Dimond branch, to teach)
      Just finished: Shoplifting from American Apparel
      Just started: Cane by Jean Toomer
      Just guiltily purchased at Barnes and Noble: Mind Wide Open (liked very much Everything Bad Is Good for You a few years ago)
      Just loaned to me by a friend: The World Without Us
      On my nightstand: toooooo many to list here, unless anyone reaaalllllyy wants to know…. I’ll carry my laptop into my bedroom and list directly…..must be about thirty…..I’d be interested myself…..)
      Also checked out from the library: The Broom of the System
      Want very much to read and must order: Scorch Atlas

  21. dan wickett

      The new David Ohle – loved Boons, starting The Camp
      Unsaid 4 (I’m into the second half finally)
      One Ring Circus by Katherine Dunn
      The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
      Siamese by Stig Sæterbakken, translated by Stokes Schwartz

  22. dan wickett

      The new David Ohle – loved Boons, starting The Camp
      Unsaid 4 (I’m into the second half finally)
      One Ring Circus by Katherine Dunn
      The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
      Siamese by Stig Sæterbakken, translated by Stokes Schwartz

  23. Paul Curran

      Blake Butler – Scorch Atlas

      Mike Young – MC Oroville’s Answering Machine

      Thomas Kendall – A Crack in the Heart Some Light Goes Through (Manuscript)

  24. Paul Curran

      Blake Butler – Scorch Atlas

      Mike Young – MC Oroville’s Answering Machine

      Thomas Kendall – A Crack in the Heart Some Light Goes Through (Manuscript)

  25. Shya

      AM/PM by Amelia Gray
      Angels by Denis Johnson
      The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler (a book about peak oil and social collapse–research for my next novel)

  26. Shya

      AM/PM by Amelia Gray
      Angels by Denis Johnson
      The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler (a book about peak oil and social collapse–research for my next novel)

  27. Richard

      Just read Ron Rash’s short story collection Chemistry and Other Stories (fantastic). Finally read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, really liked it. I have three in the mail, the new collection Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones, Leadfeather by Stephen Graham Jones, and No One Belongs Here More Than You, shorts by Miranda July.

      Will be picking up copies of Scorch Atlas at Blake’s reading next Monday, and most likely AM/PM too.
      Will be reading with Blake and Zach and Aaron on Tuesday at Chicago Quickies as well.

  28. Richard

      Just read Ron Rash’s short story collection Chemistry and Other Stories (fantastic). Finally read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, really liked it. I have three in the mail, the new collection Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones, Leadfeather by Stephen Graham Jones, and No One Belongs Here More Than You, shorts by Miranda July.

      Will be picking up copies of Scorch Atlas at Blake’s reading next Monday, and most likely AM/PM too.
      Will be reading with Blake and Zach and Aaron on Tuesday at Chicago Quickies as well.

  29. Richard

      crap, LEDFEATHER, I keep doing that, not LEADFEATHER…sorry Stephen

  30. Richard

      crap, LEDFEATHER, I keep doing that, not LEADFEATHER…sorry Stephen

  31. Amber

      AM/PM, Scorch Atlas, three different NYRB Classics including the amazing and highly recommended The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, a collection of short stories by Daphne DuMaurier, and a new translation of the Inferno. Also just picked up the new Lydia Davis collection and new J.G Ballard collection, both of which I’m about to dive into once I finish the Slynx. Oh, and Nixonland.

  32. Amber

      AM/PM, Scorch Atlas, three different NYRB Classics including the amazing and highly recommended The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya, a collection of short stories by Daphne DuMaurier, and a new translation of the Inferno. Also just picked up the new Lydia Davis collection and new J.G Ballard collection, both of which I’m about to dive into once I finish the Slynx. Oh, and Nixonland.

  33. darby

      homage to czerny – gert jonke
      the tunnel – gass

  34. darby

      homage to czerny – gert jonke
      the tunnel – gass

  35. Patrick deWitt

      Just finished: A Smuggler’s Bible by Joseph McElroy
      Currently: Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti
      And: Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
      Upcoming: Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy

  36. Patrick deWitt

      Just finished: A Smuggler’s Bible by Joseph McElroy
      Currently: Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti
      And: Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
      Upcoming: Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy

  37. zan

      Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and Inga Zolude’s Silta Zeme (Warm Earth), a Latvian book I’m working on translating in preparation for the big Latvian literature revival that is surely just around the corner. (But honestly? There should be one. This book is fantastic.)

  38. zan

      Geoff Dyer’s The Ongoing Moment, and Inga Zolude’s Silta Zeme (Warm Earth), a Latvian book I’m working on translating in preparation for the big Latvian literature revival that is surely just around the corner. (But honestly? There should be one. This book is fantastic.)

  39. Rachel

      Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken. I love love love her!

  40. Rachel

      Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry by Elizabeth McCracken. I love love love her!

  41. Merzmensch

      I’m usually reading many books in the same time:

      * Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris – by Dorothea Dietrich, etc.
      * Interfictions – Roberto Simanowski
      * The Islanders – Charles Avery (again)
      * Sputnik – Joan Fontcuberta (again and again)
      * tabbloid (blogs saved as PDFs and printed out – yes, people, I’m environmental criminal, even if I print both sites of paper) – HTMLgiant etc.
      * The Believer – back numbers, all I could order at Amazon

      and many another books about Dadaism (for my running dissertation)

      And the next book I’ll read will be

      * The Whalestone Letters – Mark Z. Danielewski

  42. Merzmensch

      I’m usually reading many books in the same time:

      * Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris – by Dorothea Dietrich, etc.
      * Interfictions – Roberto Simanowski
      * The Islanders – Charles Avery (again)
      * Sputnik – Joan Fontcuberta (again and again)
      * tabbloid (blogs saved as PDFs and printed out – yes, people, I’m environmental criminal, even if I print both sites of paper) – HTMLgiant etc.
      * The Believer – back numbers, all I could order at Amazon

      and many another books about Dadaism (for my running dissertation)

      And the next book I’ll read will be

      * The Whalestone Letters – Mark Z. Danielewski

  43. Andrew Borgstrom

      Been reading Evenson’s Fugue State very slow, a story a week. Started Lutz’s Partial List of People to Bleach yesterday. Got my Ellipsis order last week. Read Marten. Started Ruocco. Lock and Lim on the horizon.

  44. Andrew Borgstrom

      Been reading Evenson’s Fugue State very slow, a story a week. Started Lutz’s Partial List of People to Bleach yesterday. Got my Ellipsis order last week. Read Marten. Started Ruocco. Lock and Lim on the horizon.

  45. Patrick

      Homer & Langley – EL Doctorow
      The Open Curtain- Brian Evenson

  46. Patrick

      Homer & Langley – EL Doctorow
      The Open Curtain- Brian Evenson

  47. drew kalbach

      The Crab Nebula – Eric Chevillard
      Siste Viator – Sarah Manguso

  48. drew kalbach

      The Crab Nebula – Eric Chevillard
      Siste Viator – Sarah Manguso

  49. jereme

      Scorch Atlas – Blake Butler
      We Take Me Apart – Molly Gaudry
      Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence (about to start this one this week)

      and i read poetry/philosophy almost every day

  50. jereme

      Scorch Atlas – Blake Butler
      We Take Me Apart – Molly Gaudry
      Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence (about to start this one this week)

      and i read poetry/philosophy almost every day

  51. david erlewine

      just finished Scorch – fucking great
      just read Kevin Wilson’s SS collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth – ditto
      just read Nick Antosca’s Fires – ditto

      i’m now reading “Say You’re One of the Them” – it arrived at my house the day before Oprah hyped it up. liking it okay enough but not loving yet

  52. david erlewine

      just finished Scorch – fucking great
      just read Kevin Wilson’s SS collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth – ditto
      just read Nick Antosca’s Fires – ditto

      i’m now reading “Say You’re One of the Them” – it arrived at my house the day before Oprah hyped it up. liking it okay enough but not loving yet

  53. davidpeak

      meant to write “bergson.” i studied matter and memory and deleuze’s cinema 1 & cinema 2 in a class called “the philosophical issues of film.” it was my introduction to tarkovsky. probably the best class i’ve ever taken.

  54. davidpeak

      meant to write “bergson.” i studied matter and memory and deleuze’s cinema 1 & cinema 2 in a class called “the philosophical issues of film.” it was my introduction to tarkovsky. probably the best class i’ve ever taken.

  55. Catherine Lacey

      Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

  56. Catherine Lacey

      Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

  57. Jonny Ross

      the last email from my ex-g/f. over and over.

      and some mamet plays.

  58. Jonny Ross

      the last email from my ex-g/f. over and over.

      and some mamet plays.

  59. Jonny Ross

      the last email from my ex-g/f. over and over.

      and some mamet plays.

  60. mike

      DAUMAL IS SO GOOD

  61. mike

      DAUMAL IS SO GOOD

  62. mike

      DAUMAL IS SO GOOD

  63. mike

      Arakawa & Gins – The Mechanism of Meaning
      Nick Land – The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
      Peter Dube (ed.) – Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

      Recently finished Killian’s Argento Series, Taia’s Salvation Army, Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism and Field’s Incarnate: Story Material. Need to figure out what fiction, lit. theory & poetry ah’ll be reading nexxxxxxxt (i need to be reading, basically, something from every category of “books i like to read” at all time: art, philosophy, anthology, poetry, fiction, and lit theory).

      Also, oh my god! The film criticism of Theirry Kuntzel that I’ve been photocopying out of back issues of Camera Obscura!! I can’t believe this guy exists!

  64. mike

      Arakawa & Gins – The Mechanism of Meaning
      Nick Land – The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
      Peter Dube (ed.) – Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

      Recently finished Killian’s Argento Series, Taia’s Salvation Army, Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism and Field’s Incarnate: Story Material. Need to figure out what fiction, lit. theory & poetry ah’ll be reading nexxxxxxxt (i need to be reading, basically, something from every category of “books i like to read” at all time: art, philosophy, anthology, poetry, fiction, and lit theory).

      Also, oh my god! The film criticism of Theirry Kuntzel that I’ve been photocopying out of back issues of Camera Obscura!! I can’t believe this guy exists!

  65. mike

      Arakawa & Gins – The Mechanism of Meaning
      Nick Land – The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
      Peter Dube (ed.) – Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

      Recently finished Killian’s Argento Series, Taia’s Salvation Army, Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism and Field’s Incarnate: Story Material. Need to figure out what fiction, lit. theory & poetry ah’ll be reading nexxxxxxxt (i need to be reading, basically, something from every category of “books i like to read” at all time: art, philosophy, anthology, poetry, fiction, and lit theory).

      Also, oh my god! The film criticism of Theirry Kuntzel that I’ve been photocopying out of back issues of Camera Obscura!! I can’t believe this guy exists!

  66. Ken Baumann

      So most of us read multiple books at once. I’ve decided that I want to quit doing this. I’m still doing this.

      Reading:

      Finnegans Wake : Joyce
      Infinite Jest : DFW
      Mythologies : Roland Barthes

  67. Ken Baumann

      So most of us read multiple books at once. I’ve decided that I want to quit doing this. I’m still doing this.

      Reading:

      Finnegans Wake : Joyce
      Infinite Jest : DFW
      Mythologies : Roland Barthes

  68. cmr

      Nice. I’m half way through her second novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again. I read The Giant’s House before that a some short stories she had in Zoetrope: All Story before that. She is easily becoming my favorite author, which kind of sucks because I think all that’s left to read is that book you’re reading and a probably ultra depressing memoir I’m not sure I can handle.

  69. cmr

      Nice. I’m half way through her second novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again. I read The Giant’s House before that a some short stories she had in Zoetrope: All Story before that. She is easily becoming my favorite author, which kind of sucks because I think all that’s left to read is that book you’re reading and a probably ultra depressing memoir I’m not sure I can handle.

  70. cmr

      Nice. I’m half way through her second novel, Niagara Falls All Over Again. I read The Giant’s House before that a some short stories she had in Zoetrope: All Story before that. She is easily becoming my favorite author, which kind of sucks because I think all that’s left to read is that book you’re reading and a probably ultra depressing memoir I’m not sure I can handle.

  71. Kevin O'Neill

      It’s so tempting though.

  72. Kevin O'Neill

      It’s so tempting though.

  73. Kevin O'Neill

      It’s so tempting though.

  74. darby

      I’m reading Finnegans Wake also, but it’s like a decades long process for me so i don’t mention it.

  75. darby

      I’m reading Finnegans Wake also, but it’s like a decades long process for me so i don’t mention it.

  76. darby

      I’m reading Finnegans Wake also, but it’s like a decades long process for me so i don’t mention it.

  77. jspad

      A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith)

  78. jspad

      A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith)

  79. jspad

      A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (Amy L. Clark, Elizabeth Ellen, Kathy Fish, and Claudia Smith)

  80. Ken Baumann

      Yeah.
      My reading habits (and attention span) is definitely internet addled, now. Trying to get back to a bit more level a level.

  81. Ken Baumann

      Yeah.
      My reading habits (and attention span) is definitely internet addled, now. Trying to get back to a bit more level a level.

  82. Ken Baumann

      Yeah.
      My reading habits (and attention span) is definitely internet addled, now. Trying to get back to a bit more level a level.

  83. Ken Baumann

      I must be insane, because I read it in 40-80 page chunks… I’m obsessed.

  84. Ken Baumann

      I must be insane, because I read it in 40-80 page chunks… I’m obsessed.

  85. Ken Baumann

      I must be insane, because I read it in 40-80 page chunks… I’m obsessed.

  86. jereme

      are the chicks short too? that would be cool. they should add that in the title.

  87. jereme

      are the chicks short too? that would be cool. they should add that in the title.

  88. jereme

      are the chicks short too? that would be cool. they should add that in the title.

  89. sasha fletcher

      going away for the weekend.
      bringing
      bandit letters by sarah messer
      how to mend a broken heart with vengeance by leigh klein
      empire of dreams by giannina braschi

      and probably a big book with imagist poetry in it because i’m supposed to read about imagism.

      i was reading dara weir’s selected but i put it down.
      i’m sort of still reading bad bad and poemland.
      and the mothering coven.
      and also still sort of working on the battlefield where the moon says i love you. i’m pretty much just over exactly half-way through.

  90. sasha fletcher

      going away for the weekend.
      bringing
      bandit letters by sarah messer
      how to mend a broken heart with vengeance by leigh klein
      empire of dreams by giannina braschi

      and probably a big book with imagist poetry in it because i’m supposed to read about imagism.

      i was reading dara weir’s selected but i put it down.
      i’m sort of still reading bad bad and poemland.
      and the mothering coven.
      and also still sort of working on the battlefield where the moon says i love you. i’m pretty much just over exactly half-way through.

  91. sasha fletcher

      going away for the weekend.
      bringing
      bandit letters by sarah messer
      how to mend a broken heart with vengeance by leigh klein
      empire of dreams by giannina braschi

      and probably a big book with imagist poetry in it because i’m supposed to read about imagism.

      i was reading dara weir’s selected but i put it down.
      i’m sort of still reading bad bad and poemland.
      and the mothering coven.
      and also still sort of working on the battlefield where the moon says i love you. i’m pretty much just over exactly half-way through.

  92. sasha fletcher

      also should really go back to o’hara and read a lot of mayakovsky soon, since i was just assigned my paper for avant-garde, and my paper is on o’hara performing mayakovsky.
      so.
      that too then.

  93. sasha fletcher

      also should really go back to o’hara and read a lot of mayakovsky soon, since i was just assigned my paper for avant-garde, and my paper is on o’hara performing mayakovsky.
      so.
      that too then.

  94. sasha fletcher

      also should really go back to o’hara and read a lot of mayakovsky soon, since i was just assigned my paper for avant-garde, and my paper is on o’hara performing mayakovsky.
      so.
      that too then.

  95. Christopher Higgs

      That sounds like an awesome class.

      I first learned about Bergson while studying Deleuze. I had a conversation with someone just the other day in which I recommended reading D’s cinema books as an introduction to Bergson.

      I’m reading this one this weekend and then Creative Evolution next week, both for this course I’m taking on theorizing modernism. Last week we read Beckett’s novel Watt, and we’re applying Bergson to that reading in what I think is a really productive way.

  96. Christopher Higgs

      That sounds like an awesome class.

      I first learned about Bergson while studying Deleuze. I had a conversation with someone just the other day in which I recommended reading D’s cinema books as an introduction to Bergson.

      I’m reading this one this weekend and then Creative Evolution next week, both for this course I’m taking on theorizing modernism. Last week we read Beckett’s novel Watt, and we’re applying Bergson to that reading in what I think is a really productive way.

  97. Christopher Higgs

      That sounds like an awesome class.

      I first learned about Bergson while studying Deleuze. I had a conversation with someone just the other day in which I recommended reading D’s cinema books as an introduction to Bergson.

      I’m reading this one this weekend and then Creative Evolution next week, both for this course I’m taking on theorizing modernism. Last week we read Beckett’s novel Watt, and we’re applying Bergson to that reading in what I think is a really productive way.

  98. darby

      I did that in the beginning, then slowed way down to like a page per month or something. I started reading it in 2002 and I’m at page 350 now.

  99. darby

      I did that in the beginning, then slowed way down to like a page per month or something. I started reading it in 2002 and I’m at page 350 now.

  100. darby

      I did that in the beginning, then slowed way down to like a page per month or something. I started reading it in 2002 and I’m at page 350 now.

  101. Christopher Higgs

      Jean Toomer’s Cane is a seriously excellent book, if for no other reason than the way he collages genres.

  102. Christopher Higgs

      Jean Toomer’s Cane is a seriously excellent book, if for no other reason than the way he collages genres.

  103. Christopher Higgs

      Jean Toomer’s Cane is a seriously excellent book, if for no other reason than the way he collages genres.

  104. Christopher Higgs

      I really enjoyed Kunstler’s nonfiction book The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition — actually taught one of the essays (the one on Vegas) to a group of freshman a few years ago and it received a really positive response.

  105. Christopher Higgs

      I really enjoyed Kunstler’s nonfiction book The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition — actually taught one of the essays (the one on Vegas) to a group of freshman a few years ago and it received a really positive response.

  106. Christopher Higgs

      I really enjoyed Kunstler’s nonfiction book The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition — actually taught one of the essays (the one on Vegas) to a group of freshman a few years ago and it received a really positive response.

  107. Christopher Higgs

      Who did the new translation of the Inferno?

  108. Christopher Higgs

      Who did the new translation of the Inferno?

  109. Christopher Higgs

      Who did the new translation of the Inferno?

  110. Christopher Higgs

      McElroy is great. Seldom does his name come up when people talk about the postmodern novel – but it should!

      A few years ago I held an editing position at a literary journal where I had the opportunity to work with him on an essay he wrote in which he revisited his novel Plus – an amazing book that is told from the perspective of a brain floating in outer space.

      You’re in for a treat with Lookout Cartridge.

  111. Christopher Higgs

      McElroy is great. Seldom does his name come up when people talk about the postmodern novel – but it should!

      A few years ago I held an editing position at a literary journal where I had the opportunity to work with him on an essay he wrote in which he revisited his novel Plus – an amazing book that is told from the perspective of a brain floating in outer space.

      You’re in for a treat with Lookout Cartridge.

  112. Christopher Higgs

      McElroy is great. Seldom does his name come up when people talk about the postmodern novel – but it should!

      A few years ago I held an editing position at a literary journal where I had the opportunity to work with him on an essay he wrote in which he revisited his novel Plus – an amazing book that is told from the perspective of a brain floating in outer space.

      You’re in for a treat with Lookout Cartridge.

  113. mimi

      FW & IJ at the same time? Dang.

  114. mimi

      FW & IJ at the same time? Dang.

  115. mimi

      FW & IJ at the same time? Dang.

  116. Christopher Higgs

      I, too, am reading Finnegans Wake — have a course on it this semester in which we are only reading book four.

      For fun, my wife and I started reading it out loud to each other, which really makes it come alive — hearing it, I can pick up on so many of the words-as-sounds that otherwise go mute on the page.

      I guess my reading experience of FW is very strange, simultaneously coming at it from two different angles over a long period of time. But I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

  117. Christopher Higgs

      I, too, am reading Finnegans Wake — have a course on it this semester in which we are only reading book four.

      For fun, my wife and I started reading it out loud to each other, which really makes it come alive — hearing it, I can pick up on so many of the words-as-sounds that otherwise go mute on the page.

      I guess my reading experience of FW is very strange, simultaneously coming at it from two different angles over a long period of time. But I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

  118. Christopher Higgs

      I, too, am reading Finnegans Wake — have a course on it this semester in which we are only reading book four.

      For fun, my wife and I started reading it out loud to each other, which really makes it come alive — hearing it, I can pick up on so many of the words-as-sounds that otherwise go mute on the page.

      I guess my reading experience of FW is very strange, simultaneously coming at it from two different angles over a long period of time. But I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

  119. ryan

      Three lives – Gertrude stein

      just started my first full re-read of infinite jest

  120. ryan

      Three lives – Gertrude stein

      just started my first full re-read of infinite jest

  121. ryan

      Oh, and just finished The Autumn of the Patriarch by Garcia Marquez, which was fucking amazing.

  122. ryan

      Oh, and just finished The Autumn of the Patriarch by Garcia Marquez, which was fucking amazing.

  123. ryan

      Three lives – Gertrude stein

      just started my first full re-read of infinite jest

  124. ryan

      Oh, and just finished The Autumn of the Patriarch by Garcia Marquez, which was fucking amazing.

  125. Ken Baumann

      Chris: Me, too. I think it’s so damn entertaining, and full of all sorts of enchanting myth. One of the most beautiful things I’ve read. And yeah: reading aloud is good. I tend to keep quiet, but really make sure I read deliberately, and not let myself skip over the music.

  126. Ken Baumann

      Chris: Me, too. I think it’s so damn entertaining, and full of all sorts of enchanting myth. One of the most beautiful things I’ve read. And yeah: reading aloud is good. I tend to keep quiet, but really make sure I read deliberately, and not let myself skip over the music.

  127. Ken Baumann

      Chris: Me, too. I think it’s so damn entertaining, and full of all sorts of enchanting myth. One of the most beautiful things I’ve read. And yeah: reading aloud is good. I tend to keep quiet, but really make sure I read deliberately, and not let myself skip over the music.

  128. Ken Baumann

      Started The Cantos by Ezra Pound today, too. Apparently I’m obsessed with tomes.

  129. Ken Baumann

      Started The Cantos by Ezra Pound today, too. Apparently I’m obsessed with tomes.

  130. Ken Baumann

      Started The Cantos by Ezra Pound today, too. Apparently I’m obsessed with tomes.

  131. Derek

      just finished Derrida’s Archive Fever which owes a lot to Bergson, and whose titles is oddly like Amishs book. Now I’m reading the Rough Guide to Japan.

  132. Derek

      just finished Derrida’s Archive Fever which owes a lot to Bergson, and whose titles is oddly like Amishs book. Now I’m reading the Rough Guide to Japan.

  133. Derek

      just finished Derrida’s Archive Fever which owes a lot to Bergson, and whose titles is oddly like Amishs book. Now I’m reading the Rough Guide to Japan.

  134. Matt

      bouvard and pecuchet by flaubert and landing on the wrong note: jazz, dissonance, and critical practice by ajay heble

  135. Landon

      Infinite Jest home stretch.

      Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey

      Excitability by Diane Williams

  136. Landon

      Infinite Jest home stretch.

      Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey

      Excitability by Diane Williams

  137. Landon

      Infinite Jest home stretch.

      Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey

      Excitability by Diane Williams

  138. Roxane

      The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
      The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
      American Short Fiction, Fall 2009 issue
      Annalemma 5
      A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
      Airships, Barry Hannah

  139. Roxane

      The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
      The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
      American Short Fiction, Fall 2009 issue
      Annalemma 5
      A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
      Airships, Barry Hannah

  140. Roxane

      The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
      The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
      American Short Fiction, Fall 2009 issue
      Annalemma 5
      A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
      Airships, Barry Hannah

  141. Roxane

      I’m about to start reading Say You’re One of Them for the second time. I think it is such a problematic book. I’m actually going to post about it next week.

  142. Roxane

      I’m about to start reading Say You’re One of Them for the second time. I think it is such a problematic book. I’m actually going to post about it next week.

  143. Roxane

      I’m about to start reading Say You’re One of Them for the second time. I think it is such a problematic book. I’m actually going to post about it next week.

  144. alec niedenthal

      what do you think of a gate at the stairs?

  145. alec niedenthal

      what do you think of a gate at the stairs?

  146. alec niedenthal

      what do you think of a gate at the stairs?

  147. david erlewine

      Roxane, can’t wait to see your post. Right now, Hannah’s “Ray” is occupying my hands but I hope to get back into “Say” this weekend. I’ve heard so much about “Fattening for Gabon” (it’s a novella, at 135 or so pages) but so far it’s not at all keeping me.

  148. david erlewine

      Roxane, can’t wait to see your post. Right now, Hannah’s “Ray” is occupying my hands but I hope to get back into “Say” this weekend. I’ve heard so much about “Fattening for Gabon” (it’s a novella, at 135 or so pages) but so far it’s not at all keeping me.

  149. david erlewine

      Roxane, can’t wait to see your post. Right now, Hannah’s “Ray” is occupying my hands but I hope to get back into “Say” this weekend. I’ve heard so much about “Fattening for Gabon” (it’s a novella, at 135 or so pages) but so far it’s not at all keeping me.

  150. david erlewine

      ha ha if you’re kidding

      sorry dude, if not

  151. david erlewine

      ha ha if you’re kidding

      sorry dude, if not

  152. david erlewine

      ha ha if you’re kidding

      sorry dude, if not

  153. jensen

      i read Airships over the summer. so great.

  154. jensen

      i read Airships over the summer. so great.

  155. jensen

      i read Airships over the summer. so great.

  156. Amber

      Ciaran Carson. (And I should say “new,” not new…I think it’s from a few years ago but I just picked it up.) It’s very modern, almost colloquial at times…I’m not sure if I like it yet–but it’s an interesting contrast. Definitely worth a read.

  157. Amber

      Ciaran Carson. (And I should say “new,” not new…I think it’s from a few years ago but I just picked it up.) It’s very modern, almost colloquial at times…I’m not sure if I like it yet–but it’s an interesting contrast. Definitely worth a read.

  158. Amber

      Ciaran Carson. (And I should say “new,” not new…I think it’s from a few years ago but I just picked it up.) It’s very modern, almost colloquial at times…I’m not sure if I like it yet–but it’s an interesting contrast. Definitely worth a read.

  159. Catherine Lacey

      it’s stein not klein

  160. Catherine Lacey

      it’s stein not klein

  161. Catherine Lacey

      it’s stein not klein

  162. sasha fletcher

      lies.
      leigh stein.
      lee klein.
      whatever.
      i don’t care.
      i
      don’t
      care

  163. sasha fletcher

      lies.
      leigh stein.
      lee klein.
      whatever.
      i don’t care.
      i
      don’t
      care

  164. sasha fletcher

      lies.
      leigh stein.
      lee klein.
      whatever.
      i don’t care.
      i
      don’t
      care

  165. Roxane

      Jensen, I’m loving and hating Airships. Some stories are so so amazing but other stories bug the hell out of me.

  166. Roxane

      Jensen, I’m loving and hating Airships. Some stories are so so amazing but other stories bug the hell out of me.

  167. Roxane

      Jensen, I’m loving and hating Airships. Some stories are so so amazing but other stories bug the hell out of me.

  168. Roxane

      I’m liking it quite a bit. I’m not very familiar with Moore’s work so I went in with no expectations. I’ll probably write about it before the end of the month.

  169. Roxane

      I’m liking it quite a bit. I’m not very familiar with Moore’s work so I went in with no expectations. I’ll probably write about it before the end of the month.

  170. Roxane

      I’m liking it quite a bit. I’m not very familiar with Moore’s work so I went in with no expectations. I’ll probably write about it before the end of the month.

  171. Ryan Call

      which stories out of airships dont you like?

  172. Ryan Call

      which stories out of airships dont you like?

  173. Ryan Call

      which stories out of airships dont you like?

  174. sasha fletcher

      it’s really good though. really. it’s pretty goddam incredible.

  175. sasha fletcher

      it’s really good though. really. it’s pretty goddam incredible.

  176. sasha fletcher

      it’s really good though. really. it’s pretty goddam incredible.

  177. Kevin O'Neill
  178. What Some People Are Reading « Mostly on McSweeney’s!

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  179. Kevin O'Neill