november 2019 reading

Ron Padgett, Big Cabin

Christina Sharpe, In The Wake: On Blackness and Being

Dierdre McCloskey, Economical Writing

Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery

Peter Demetz, Marx, Engels, and the Poets, trans. Jefferey L. Sammons

Lawrence T. Carter, Eubie Blake: Keys of Memory

Judith E. Smith, Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical

Neck 2, no editor given.

Fanny Howe, Love and I

Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor, Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

The Triumph of Life

Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

Percival Everett, The Water Cure

Idra Novey, Clarice: The Visitor (chapbook; photographs Eric Baum)

october 2019 reading

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