Raphael Rubenstein, In The Basement of the Café Rilke
Sawako Nakayasu, Hurry Home Honey
Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis
David Grubbs, Good Night The Pleasure Was Ours
Ada Calhoun, Also a Poet
Niklas Luhmann, Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (multiple translators)
Edward Berlin, Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History
Imre Kértesz, The Union Jack, trans. Tim Wilkinson
Joseph Jarman, Black Case Volumes 1 & 2; Return From Exile
Dodi Goldman, The Beholder’s Share: Essays on Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Imagination
Julie Carr, Equivocal
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Aaron Belz, Soft Launch
Ben Rice, Pobby and Dingan
Herbert S. Strean and Lucy Freeman, Behind the Couch: Revelations of a Psychiatrist
june 2022 reading
Rob McLennan, The Book of Smaller
Rachel Cusk, Second Place
Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Szechuan, revised English version by Eric Bentley
David Kalstone, Five Temperaments
Alison Leigh Brown, Foucault
Julia May Jonas, Vladimir
Arda Collins, Star Lake
Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers (7th ed.)
Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, As Such, trans. Minna Zallman Proctor
Bruce Pollock, A Friend in the Music Business: The ASCAP Story
Gayle Jones, Corregidora
Tolu Oloruntoba, Every One a Furnace
may 2022 reading
Mark Abel, Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time
Hilda Hilst, Letters from a Seducer, trans. John Keene
Tõnu Õnnepalu, Border State, trans. Madli Puhvel
Camille Forbes, Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star
Jon Fredrickson, The Lies We Tell Ourselves
James L. Dickerson, Just for a Thrill: Lil Hardin Armstrong, First Lady of Jazz
Peter Handke, The Afternoon of a Writer, trans. Ralph Manheim
Honore de Balzac, Treatise on Elegant Living, trans. Napoleon Jeffries
P.D. Mangus, A Philosophy of Cover Versions
Rob McLennan, A Perimeter
Barry Schwabsky, The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present
Charles Johnson, The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
april 2022 reading
Philip Bell, Refuse to Be Done
Philip H. Ennis, The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music
Herbert Lehnert & Eva Wessel, Thomas Mann
John Ashbery, A Worldly Country
Elvira Hernandez, The Chilean Flag, trans. Alec Schumacher
Michael Ruse, On Purpose
Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus, trans. Allen Wood
Hilda Hilst, Of Death. Minimal Odes, trans. Laura Ceasarce Eglin
march 2022 reading
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