Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud, trans. Beverley Bie Brahic
Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation, trans. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen
Francis Ponge, The Sun Places in the Abyss, trans. Serge Gavonsky
Eric Havelock, The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
Ron Hogan, Our Endless and Proper Work
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Dereliction
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Alan Woods and Ted Grant, Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science
L.P. Hartley, A Perfect Woman
Isabelle Graw, Three Cases of Value Reflection: Ponge, Whitten, Bansky
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser, trans. Jack Dawson
may 2023 reading
Jessica Laser, Planet Drill
Kenneth Kraft, ed., Zen: Tradition and Transition
Berthold Hoeckner, ed. Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music
Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Michael Alec Rose, Audible Signs: Essays from a Musical Ground
Denise Riley, Say Something Back/Time Lived, Without Its Flow
Frank Sherlock, Over Here
Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline, trans. Tim Parks
Thomas Mann, New Selected Stories, trans. Damion Searles
Theodore Enslin, Songs w/o Notes
Gerhard Roth, The Plan, trans. Todd C. Hanlin
Gerhard Roth, Winterreise, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
Michael North, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language & Twentieth-Century Literature
april 2023 reading
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