Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk
L.P. Hartley, The Shrimp and the Anemone
Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
Jacqueline Waters, Commodore
L.P. Hartley, The Sixth Heaven
James Tate, The Ghost Soldiers
Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique of Epistemology, trans. Martin Sohn-Rethel
Martin Jay, Adorno
James Tate, Distance From Loved Ones
Philip Guston, I Paint What I See
James Tate, Worshipful Company of Fletchers
august 2023 reading
Adam Mars-Jones, Noriko Smiling
Brian Dillon, Suppose a Sentence
Jen Calleja, Vehicle
Lauren Michele Jackson, White Negroes; When Cornrows Were in Vogue
Norbert Elias, What Is Sociology?
Simon Armitage, Book of Matches
Nige Tassell, Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?
Lyn Hejinian, The Cold of Poetry
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
Alan Massie, Klaus and Other Stories
Tom Raworth, Average Cabin (chapbook)
july 2023 reading
Albert Hayes, My Face for the World to See
Deborah E. Cluff, Shame and the Making of Art: A Depth Psychological Perspective
Steve Waxman, Live Music in America
John Bold, The Ballad
Joli Jensen, Write No Matter What: Advice for Academics
Edward Lee, Folksong and Music Hall
Edmund Wilson, The American Earthquake
Mark Doty, The Art of Description; World into Word
june 2023 reading
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