Thomas Mann, The Genesis of a Novel, trans. Richard and Clara Winston
Carolyn J. Eichner, The Paris Commune, A Brief History
Wheeler Light, Blue Means Snow
Dennis Cooper, I Wished
Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race
Thomas Delahaye, Scrutiny (chapbook)
Miki Berenyi, Fingers Crossed
Rory Sullivan-Burke, The Light Pours Out of Me: The Authorized Biography of John McGeogh
Alfredo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel, trans. Ruth L. C. Simms
Judith Hall, Prospects
George Houle, Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation
Rodrigo Toscano, Explosion Rocks Springfield
nov 2022 reading
Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark
David Bennett, The Currencies of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Revolution
Lydia Alix Filingham, Foucault for Beginners
Claire Louise-Bennett, Checkout 19
Leslie Stuart, My Bohemian Life
Peter Reading, Perduta Gente
Julian Symons, The Thirties
Gavin Butt, No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
Mette Hjort, Rules and Conventions: Literature, Philosophy, Social Theory
Andrei Marmor, Social Conventions From Language to Law
october 2022 reading
Caseen Gaines, Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
Paul C. Taylor, Race: A Philosophical Introduction
James Tate, The Torches
Lee Wilson, All I Have to Do Is Dream: The Felice and Bordleaux Bryant Story
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday
Roger Kimball and William Bolcom, Reminiscing with Sissle and Blake
Yasemin Hunter and Tanja Bhend, Holy Bimbam
Catherine Wagner, Of Course
Tatiana Lubovski-Acosta, La Movida
Charlie Porter, What Artists Wear
Josh Cohen, Losers
Herbert Lomas, Public Footpath
september 2022 reading
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
A Jacques Barzun Reader, ed. Michael Murphy
Kristin Dombek, The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism
Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysis, trans. Frank Wynne
Vicki Baum, It Was All Quite Different
Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Pierre Michon, The Origin of the World, trans. Wyatt Alexander Mason
Lucy Ives, Loudermilk
Christopher Bataille, Annam, trans. Richard Howard
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Snapshots, trans. Bruce Morissette
Robert Hershon, How to Ride on the Woodlawn Express
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Recollections of the Golden Triangle, trans. J.A. Underwood
Barbara Bloom, Gifts (text by Susan Tallman)
august 2022 reading
Jenni Sorkin, Art in California
Robert R. Wark, Meet the Ladies: Personalities in Huntington Portraits
Ethan Waters and Richard Ofshe, Therapy’s Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today’s Walking Worried
Lisa Robertson, Boat
Shane McCree, The Animal too Big to Kill
Paul Strathern, Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
Andrew Ross, Under Conditions Not of Our Choosing (pamphlet)
Aditi Machado, Emporium
Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism
Alan Anderson, The Songwriter Goes to War: The Story of Irving Berlin’s World War Production of This Is the Army
Writers and Their Notebooks, ed. Diana M. Raab
Stuart J. Hecht, Transposing Broadway: Jews, Assimilation, and the American Musical