11 Comments

1. June 11th, 2012 / 2:01 pm Bobby Dixon—

   The Obese 
   Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail
   Been reading along w/ Everyday Genius issue, a lot of fun. 
   Juiced by Jose Canseco, even though it didn’t come out this year, was one of my favorite reads this year. 

2. June 11th, 2012 / 2:28 pm Tyler Crumrine—

   Hallelujah, Giant Space Wolf by Daniel Bailey seriously rocked my world. Glad Butler recommended it here. 

3. June 11th, 2012 / 4:59 pm postitbreakup—

   loved The Obese

4. June 11th, 2012 / 5:26 pm Anonymous—

   “Autoportrait,” Edouard Levé
   “Pure Filth,” Peter Sotos
   “How Should a Person Be?,” Sheila Heti
   “The Map and the Territory,” Michel Houellebecq
   “The Anatomy of Harpo Marx,” Wayne Koestenbaum

5. June 11th, 2012 / 7:10 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

   Was Flame Alphabet this year? That was pretty beautiful and perfect.

6. June 11th, 2012 / 7:50 pm Michael J Seidlinger—

   I need to read Pure Filth.

7. June 11th, 2012 / 7:51 pm Michael J Seidlinger—

   Damn right. Anything Nick writes is great.

8. June 11th, 2012 / 8:17 pm Noah Cicero—

   please look after mom by Kyung Sook Shin. I cried three times while reading it. The book plays on your heart strings or whatever, but it does it in an entirely different way. Like there is a scene where the narrator describes the scene between the mother and her brother. Her brother lives in the same town. The two are older, in their 50s. The brother rides up on his bicycle to the edge of his sister’s yard randomly and yells, “Hey sister, are you okay.” The sister yells back, “I’m okay brother.” Then the brother rides away on his bike. 
   Kokoro by Soseki NatsumeGoogle “han shan poems” “Han shan poems gary snyder” and “Tang Poets” And just read random links.

9. June 12th, 2012 / 11:13 am bartleby_taco—

   seconding the houellebecq and leve
   ‘varamo’ – cesar aira
   ‘the secret of evil’ – bolano
   ‘almost never’ – daniel sada
   ‘satantango’ – laszlo krasznahorkai

   it came out last year but i recently read ‘beauty was the case that they gave me’ by mark leidner and loved it lots

   very much looking forward to ‘planets’ by sergio chejfec, ‘dublinesque’ by enrique vila-matas, ‘the no variations’ by luis chitarroniand, and the new translation of ‘the passion according to g.h.’ by clarice lispector

10. June 12th, 2012 / 7:27 pm Bill Hsu—

    Brian Evenson, Windeye
    Brian Evenson, Immobility
    Hans Rickheit, Folly
    Matthew Revert, My Tumors Made Me Interesting
    Chiara Barzini, Sister Stop Breathing
    Brian Oliu, Level End

11. June 14th, 2012 / 9:46 pm Dawn West—

    So far: Arcadia by Lauren Groff and Wild by Cheryl Strayed.