David Heatley, Qualification
Pam Ore, Grammar of the Cage
Robert Christgau, Any Old Way You Choose It
Philip Thompson, The Poetry of Brecht
Eileen Myles, I Must Be Living Twice
Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of the Employee
Kit Robinson, Thought Balloon
Stephanie Burt, Don’t Read Poetry
Edward Abrams, The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America
The Cohambee River Collective Statement
Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, #Accelerate Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
Michelins Pichler, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Digital Reproducability #Twitter Version
Daniel Poppick, The Police
Jess Row, White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
september 2019 reading
Ada Wolin, Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las
Liana Quill, Fifty Poems
Jon Michael Spencer, ed., The Willard Grant Still Reader: Essays on American Music,
Stuart Horodner, The Art Life: On Creativity and Career
Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip
Caleb Beck with, Political Subject
Jennifer Lynn Stover, The Sonic Color Line
Caleb Beckwith, Political Subject
James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way
Jennifer C. Lena, Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music
Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Dusty Pink, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman
Corinna Copp, Miracle Mare (chapbook)
Miguel de Cervantes, The Adventures of Don Quixote (v. 1)
Peter Scheldjahl, Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings
Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Being Human
Mark J. Butler, Playing Something That Runs
Reginald Gibbons, Last Lake
Aruna D’Souza, Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
august 2019 reading
Sondra Gorney, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Life and Music of Jay Gorney
Nina Sun Eidsheim, The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre & Vocality
A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton
Aaron Kunin, Love Three
Grenade in Mouth: Some Poems of Miyó Vestrini, trans. Anne Boyer and Cassandra Gillig
Scott E. Brown, James P. Johnson: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Multitudinous Hearts: Select Poems, trans. Richard Zenith
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Swamp Ithsmus
Oliver Julien and Christophe Levaux, eds., Over and Over: Exploring Repetition in Popular Music
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
T. Zachary Colter, Sonnets to the Humans
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing
july 2019 reading
Vernon Lee, Psychology of an Art Writer
Dora Malech, Stet
Devin Johnston, Mosses and Lichens
Paul Schimmel, Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Herman Rappaport, The Theory Mess
Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, ed. Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne
Toby Green, A Handful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Louis Chude-Sokei,The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Frederic Tuten, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
Thomas Bernhardt, The Voice Imitator [read months ago, forgot to list it]
Theodor Adorno, Dream Notes
Robert Bailey, Art & Language International
Vincent Katz, Swimming Home
Anne Boyer, The Undying
Stephanie Young, Pet Sounds
jul 31
Up 7. Watched another 30 min. of The Great Ziegfeld - it’s 3 hrs. Chatted w/ dad. Tidied bedroom. Left to L.A. about 9:40. 1st trip out of the I.E. since I’ve been here, always forget how unpleasant the freeway traffic is when I’m away for a few months. Made it to Ameoba by 11, shopped for an hr., several classical CDs in the $3-5 range to satisfy my curiosity about Ignacio Cervantes and John Alden, Carpenter, some used jazz, 2 volumes of the year-by-year R&B sets I’m trying to complete, and a couple of indulgences - a pre-ICP Mengelberg I hadn’t seen before, and a vinyl comp of gospel that influenced rock and roll (a lot of which I may already have or have heard). Also bought a self-contained turntable, one of those Crosleys, to use here - justified/budgeted it as a “home” expense. Met Evan Kindley for lunch in Los Feliz, spent a couple hrs. catching up and chatting about various academic and literary subjects, walked from 101 Cafe to Counterpoint Books on Franklin, near where I used to live. Picked up a couple more jazz CDs and an early bossa nova comp. Dropped Evan off to pick up his daughter, drove home w/ a stop in downtown West Covina (yes, another bookstore). The coffee place in that vicinity closed - tho, I hadn’t cared for it since it changed hands into more of a boba situation. Had also thought to buy some sausage for dinner on Friday at the nearby Claro’s, but had forgotten that the entire chain is closed on Weds. Listened, over the course of the day’s driving, to disc 4 of Motown 1967 (probably twice through, and repeated plays of Chris Clark’s version of Smokey’s “From Head to Toe”), Lloyd Cole’s synthetic new Guesswork, and most of a Guus Janssen/Han Bennink duo. Home by 6. Dinner, got some office/paperwork together just after for an errand tomorrow. Watched Jeopardy!, and most of a Law & Order, made myself go out from 9-11 to edit. No time to read seriously today - didn’t quite finish the unfortunately dull Gorney book. Read front matter and 1 short poem by Alfred Starr Hamilton from the Song Cave book I’d found in Claremont the other day. Lights out 12:30.
Last day I’ll be posting this for the foreseeable future; will continue to post monthly reading lists, and think about how otherwise to use this space.