Julio Cortazar, Fantomas and the Multinational Vampires, trans. David Kurnick
Francis Ponge, Nioque of the Early Spring, trans. Jonathan Larson
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Craig Dworkin, The Crystal Text (chapbook)
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
Edward Albee, Box and Quotations for Chairman Mao
Peter Osborne, The Postconceptual Condition
Elio Vittorini, Women of Messina, trans. Frances Fernery
John Stokes, In the Nineties
Zadie Smith, Intimations
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mi Revalueshanary Fren
July 2020 reading
Christopher Small, Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening
Gerard Koeppel, City on a Grid: How New York Became New York
Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life.
Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs, trans. Corinna Copp
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Norman Fischer, Success
John Ashbery, Your Name Here
Ann Powers, Good Booty
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
June 2020 reading
Jan Mieszkowski, Crises of the Sentence
Sean Bonney, Our Death
Peter Wollen, Paris Manhattan: Writings About Art
Alex Vitale, The End of Policing
Terrence Hayes, American Sonnets To My Future Assassin
Julien Phillips, Stars of the Ziegfeld Follies
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Overture and the Haitian Revolution
Charles North, Everything and Other Poems
Jean Day, A Young Recruit
May 2020 reading
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, ed. Ben Marcus
Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll
Vivencias; Dialogues Between the Works of Brazilian Artists from 1960s-2002 (catalog/essays)
Roberto Manganelli, All The Errors, trans. Henry Martin
Alain Robbe-Grillet, For a New Novel, trans. Richard Howard
Clark Coolidge, Selected Poems 1962-1985
Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider
T. D. Rice, Jim Crow, American: Selected Songs and Plays, ed. W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
April 2020 reading
Anna Maskovachis, Eleanor, or the Rejection of the Progress of Love
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Poetic Closure; A Study of How Poems End
Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal
Wendy Trevino, Cruel Fiction
Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
Ben Ratliff, John Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
Frances Ponge, The Nature of Things, trans. Lee Fahlenstock.
Wesley Brown, Darktown Strutters
Lisa Russ Spaar, Orexia
Willie the Lion Smith (with George Hoefer), Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist
Louky Bersianik, Nicole Brossard, France Théoret, Gail Scott, Louis Cotnoir, and Louise Dupré, Theory, A Sunday