Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
Al Firelis and Anna Strong Safford, eds., The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems
John P. Marquand, Repent in Haste
William M. Hamlin, Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction
Colin McGill, Logical Properties
E.H.W. Meyerstein, Bollond
Carter Ratcliff, The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
Sara Nicholson, April
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
D.M. Bradford, Bottom Rail on Top
James Voorhees, ed., Just Reason: Tony Smith Sculpture, and Other Modernisms, Vol. 1
Rod Padgett, Pink Dust
Javier Serena, Attila, trans. Katie Whitemore
june 2025 reading
Matti Friedman, Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Elisa Gabbert, Normal Distance
Elisabeth Willis, Liontaming in America
Bryan Kim Stefans, For Trapped Things
Norman Rush, Whites
Rashid Kalhidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Robert W. Weisberg, Creativity: Beyond the Myth of Genius
Mark Haber, Reinhardt’s Garden
Laszló Krasznahorkai, Chasing Homer, trans. John Batki
“Collective Creation of the Theâtre de l’Aquarium,” The Inheritor: A Play, trans. Kate Braederson and Thalia Wolff
Peter Osborne & Adrian Piper in Conversation, Philosophies of Conceptual Art
Kathryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch
John S. Garrison, Red Hot + Blue
Jay F. Rosenbert, Three Conversations about Knowing
Casey Thayer, Rational Anthem
Rachel Kushner, The Strange Case of Rachel K.
may 2025 reading
Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
Nastasia Rugani, About Phoenix, trans. Paula Ayer
Arturo Vivante, Solitude and Other Stories
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Stories
Jean Day, Apicality
Ming La, Bliss Montage
Alice Childress, Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life
Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation, trans. John Cullen
Ruth Ellen Kocher, domino Un/blued
Gerald Murnane, Border Districts
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, ed. Sarah Weinman
Amparo Dâvila, The Houseguest, trans. Audrey Harris and Matthew Gleeson
performance review suspended
Most of what I’ve been doing since early May, I haven’t felt like placing on public display. That may or may not change, but reading logs will continue.
performance review 4/29 - 5/4
1. Small amount of editing on copyright essay. Deadline in < 2 weeks, need to make finishing a priority.
2. Worked on Human Hearts show at Mama Tried on 5/29; mainly, communicating with booker and other bands on the bill. This started last week: some progress, but still some things to nail down.
3. Saw Amps for Christ (Henry Barnes) and other local musicians at Claremont Lewis Museum of Art (Sat. 5/3). Good opportunity to catch up w/ people. Add’l social engagements in Upland/Claremont on Mon/Wed/Thurs.
4. Signed paperwork at my family’s attorney’s office, brought back papers requiring my dad’s signature.
5. Made sautéed zucchini w/ onions & garlic for my dad, for dinner Sun.
Cardio at gym 4 days of 7.