Barry N. Malzberg, Chorale
Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Annemarie Austin, The Flaying of Marsays
Marc Cabaniss, The Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson
Maxe Crandall, The Nancy Reagan Collection
Claude Chabrol, Interviews, ed. Christopher Beach; various translators
Robert Sheppard, Tin Pan Arcadia
Ron Padgett, Dot
Emily Lordi, The Meaning of Soul
Alan Bernheimer, From Nature
Gerhard Roth, The Will to Sickness, trans. Tristram Wolff
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., ed, Music and the Harlem Renaissance
Laura Jaramillo, Making Water
Alain Robbe-Grillet, Ghosts in the Mirror, trans. Jo Levy
Rodrigo Toscano, The Charm and the Dread
march 2023 reading
Esteban Buch, Beethoven’s Ninth: A Political History, trans. Richard Miller
Nathaniel Farrell, Lost Horizon
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Stephen Marche, Writing and Failure
Colm Toibin, The Magician
E. Randol Schoenberg, ed. The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their Contemporaries 1930-1951, trans. Adrian Feuchtwanger and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg
Elizabeth Robinson, Three Novels
Michael Gottlieb, Collected Essays
Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, Dan Zahavi, eds., Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, & Indian Traditions.
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
february 2023 reading
Richard Crawford, Summertime: A Life in Music
Wanda Coleman, The Complete American Sonnets
Anna Moshovakis, Participation
Edoardo Nesi, Sentimental Economy, trans. Antony Shugaar
Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone: Selected Poems, trans. Ron Padgett
M/M (text, João Ribos), Just Like an Ant Walking on the Edge of the Visible
Klaus Mann, Mephisto
january 2023 reading
Seeta Chaganti, Strange Footing; Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages
John Ashbery, Where Shall I Wander?
Jean Améry, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man, trans. Adrian Nathan West
Cynthia Ozick, Extremities
Luke Roberts, Glacial Decoys
Wallace Hillock, Word for Word: The Rewriting of Fiction
Doug Lang, In the Works
Mike Davis, City of Quartz (reread)
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (reread)
Charles Bennett, An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis
Douglas Glover, Teeth (chapbook)
december 2022 reading
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