William Germano, On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts
Hilda Hilst, With My Dog-Eyes, trans. Adam Morris
Ben Estes, ABC Moonlight
Callie Garden, Wings in Time
Nathalie Quintane, Tomatoes + Why Doesn’t the Far Left Read Literature?, trans. Marty Hiatt
Matthew Rana, The Theory of the Square
february 2022 reading
Helen Mort & Aaron Meskin, Opposite: Poems, Philosophy & Coffee
Michel Foucault, Madness & Civilization, trans. Richard Howard
Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro, When Bad Thinking Happens To Good People
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
Jonathan Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention
John Keene, Punks
Alex Parish, Keep All Your Friends: The Red Crayola with and without Art & Language, 1979-1981
january 2022 reading
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style
Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Edward Mendelson, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers
Russell Banks, A Permanent Member of The Family
Richard Watson, The Philosopher’s Diet
John Keene, Annotations
Percival Everett, Telephone
Madeline Dore, I Didn’t Do The Thing Today
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Fred Inglis, Cultural Studies
Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea
Wesley Leon Aroozoo, Bedok Reservoir
Karen Solie, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
Gordon Eklund, The Eclipse of Dawn
december 2021 reading
Ethel Spector Person, Aiban Hagelin, Peter Fonagy eds., On Freud’s “Observations of Transference-Love”
Simon Crichtley, Notes on Suicide
Lisa Robertson, 3 Summers
David W. Brown, When Strangers Cooperate: Using Social Conventions to Govern Ourselves
Ann Charters, Nobody; The Story of Bert Williams
Catriona Strang, Corked
Catriona Strang, Reveries of a Solitary Biker
Tracey Thorn, Rock ’n’ Roll Friend
Nicholas Brown, Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under Capitalism
Kevin Davies, FPO
Marguerite Duras, Writing, trans. Mark Pollozotti.
David Batchelor, Minimalism
Stuart Hampshire, Justice Is Conflict
Richard Cadell, Uncertain Time
12.31.21
Last day of this series. May use this space differently.
Up 5. Read 2 ch. Middlemarch, 10 p. Brooks.
At some point after breakfast, picked up Pinker’s Sense of Style.
Spoke to Bree and her folks, about 10 pm their time.
Napped around 11, to Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations (a friend had posted it on her dad’s b-day, couple days ago).
Knew in advance I wouldn’t write today - still recovering from exhaustion yesterday. At least the sun has come back out.
Played piano at some point - “The Man I Love” and of course “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
Posted about the chord changes of the latter on twitter.
Finished chapter of Brooks.
Went out briefly around 5, partly to see if I could get some roasted peppers at Padua Pasta Makers, but they were closed. Got a coffee to go at Mud, walked around downtown Upland, dropped into the antique mall with the crummiest records ever. Sent pics of the gazebo to Bree.
Read the rest of Caddel, Uncertain Time.
Dinner, Jeopardy!
Watched Law & Order, half an hr. of a Thin Man movie. Read more Pinker.
Went to bed at 10, put on side 1 of Heiner Stadler, Brains on Fire - a weird record on a classical label by a Polish composer, but w/ out-jazz players inc. Barre Philips and Reggie Workman. Picked it up on intuition at Penny Lane last week, realized it’s the same guy who arranged an equally curious Monk/Bird record I have.
Bree called at 11. Lights out midnight.