James Tate, Shroud of the Gnome
R. Howard Bloch, One Toss of the Dice: How a Poem Made Us Modern
Eva Meijer, The Limits of My Language, trans. Antoinette Fawcett
RJ Smith, Chuck Berry: An American Life
L.P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda
Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, The Empire of Depression: A New History
Ross Feld, Guston in Time
Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English
Beth Pickens, Make Your Art No Matter What
september 2023 reading
Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
L.P. Hartley, The Shrimp and the Anemone
Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
Jacqueline Waters, Commodore
L.P. Hartley, The Sixth Heaven
James Tate, The Ghost Soldiers
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology, trans. Martin Sohn-Rethel
Martin Jay, Adorno
James Tate, Distance From Loved Ones
Philip Guston, I Paint What I See
James Tate, Worshipful Company of Fletchers
august 2023 reading
Adam Mars-Jones, Noriko Smiling
Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence
Jen Calleja, Vehicle
Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes; When Cornrows Were in Vogue
Norbert Elias, What Is Sociology?
Simon Armitage, Book of Matches
Nige Tassell, Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?
Lyn Hejinian, The Cold of Poetry
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
Alan Massie, Klaus and Other Stories
Tom Raworth, Average Cabin (chapbook)
july 2023 reading
Albert Hayes, My Face for the World to See
Deborah E. Cluff, Shame and the Making of Art: A Depth Psychological Perspective
Steve Waxman, Live Music in America
John Bold, The Ballad
Joli Jensen, Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
Edward Lee, Folksong and Music Hall
Edmund Wilson, The American Earthquake
Mark Doty, The Art of Description; World into Word
june 2023 reading
Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud, trans. Beverley Bie Brahic
Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation, trans. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
Francis Ponge, The Sun Places in the Abyss, trans. Serge Gavonsky
Eric Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
Ron Hogan, Our Endless and Proper Work
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Dereliction
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Alan Woods and Ted Grant, Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science
L.P. Hartley, A Perfect Woman
Isabelle Graw, Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Bansky
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser, trans. Jack Dawson