August/September reading

August:

Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude

The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons, ed. Joel Foreman

Steve Waxman, Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience

Chiuna Achebe, Things Fall Apart (re-read)

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room + "Sonny's Blues"

Tom Raworth, Tottering State: Selected and New Poems 1963-1983

Joes Segal, Art & Politics: Between Purity and Propaganda

September:

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic

Rob Bowman, Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

Barbara Guest, The Red Gaze

John Ashbery, As Umbrellas Follow Rain

Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding, From Approximately Coast to Coast, It's the Bob and Ray Show

Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding, The New! Improved! Bob and Ray Book

Susan M. Schultz, Dementia Blog

Fred Moten, In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition

Kit Robinson, Leaves of Class

Samuel R. Delaney, Dark Reflections

David Pollock, Bob and Ray, Keener Than Most Persons

John Wriggle, Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Jazz Arranging in the Swing Era

John Ashbery, Shadow Train

Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Elizabeth Willis, Alive: Selected Poems

Anthony Kwame Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics In a World of Strangers

Julie Agoos, Echo System

Alfred Corn, Contradictions

July 2017 reading (slow/tough month)

Julie Carr, Think Tank

David Salle, How To See

[redacted - MS for academic review]

J.H. Prynne, The White Stones

Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures

Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Andrew Flory, I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover

Ross Gay, Bringing Down the Shovel

June 2017 reading

Richard Peterson, Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity

Lee Jacobs, Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film

Mark Kingwell, Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

John Wilkinson, Ghost Nets

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Kelly Dean Jolley, Brown Studies (MS)

Percival Everett, Assumption

Jason Morphew, What To Deflect When You're Deflecting (MS)

Zach Savich, Century Swept Burial

James Shea, The Lost Novel

Percival Everett, Damned If I Do

Alison McCracken, Real Men Don't Sing: Crooning in American Culture

James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain

May 2017 reading

Laura Kipnis, Unwanted Advances

J. Sakai, Settlers

Chad Hansen, Patches of Light

Julie Carr, Objects from a Borrowed Confession

Robin Blaser, Syntax

Clark Coolidge, Life Forms Here (chapbook)

Brian Foley, The Constitution

Barry Singer, Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf

Gary Lutz, Assisted Living (chapbook)

Percival Everett, American Desert

Stephen Bourne, Elisabeth Welch - Soft Lights and Sweet Music

Jorie Graham, The End of Beauty

William Hogeland, Inventing American History

James Baldwin, Collected Essays [Library of America]

Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons

Percival Everett, So Much Blue

April 2017 reading

Clark Coolidge, Solution Passage

Percival Everett, Watershed

Edith Wharton, The Twilight Sleep

Robert Iton, In Search of The Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post Civil Rights Era

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr., The Decoration of Houses

Andrea Moro, I Speak Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language

Kit Robinson, Catalan Passages (chapbook)

Cesar Aria, An Incident in the Life of a Landscape Painter

Scott F. Crider, The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay

Ed Steck, Far Rainbow

Laura Goldstein, Awesome Camera

Karin Hoffman, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life

David Schubert, Initial A