Sara Wainscott, Insecurity System
Guadalupe Nettel, After the Winter, trans. Rosalind Harvey
Guido Morselli, Divertimento 1889, trans. Hugh Shankland
Abby Frucht, Maids
Tom Piazza, Blues Up and Down; Jazz in Our Time
Hannah Sullivan, The Work of Revision
Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen
Kent Shaw, Too Numerous
Ryan Raul Bańagale, Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon
David Weir, The Leopard (BFI Film Classics)
Devra Lehmann, Socrates: A Life Worth Living
Christine Smallwood, La Captive
march 2024 reading
Danielle Lorenzini, The Force of Truth*
Lyn Hejinian, My Life (R)
Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West, trans. Earl Hartman
Peter Momtchiloff, The Beginners
Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free
Frank L. Cioffi The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers
Dara Weir, The Book of Knowledge
Thomas Bernhard, Woodcutters, trans. David McLintock
Ken Gonzales-Day, Lynching in the West
februrary 2024 reading
Pierre Clémenti, A Few Personal Messages, trans. Claire Foster
Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Brian Teare, Poem Bitten By a Man
Anthony Trollope, Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices
Stephanie Burt, We Are Mermaids
Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
Maria Dermoût, The Ten Thousand Things, trans. Hans Koning
january 2024 reading
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
Joyce Carol Oates, Pursuit
Kyle Schlessinger, Parts of Speech
Peggy Wood, A Splendid Gypsy: John Drew
Douglas Glover, Attack of the Copula Spiders
P.J. Cowlam, Marisa
Andrew Epstein, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
Hélio Oiticica, Secret Poetics
Karen Heuler, The Inner City
Gillian White, Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry
Brandon Taylor, Late Americans
december 2023 reading
Connie Scozzaro, Marnie
L.P. Hartley, The Brickfield
Arthur Krystal, Except When I Write: Reflections of a Recovering Critic
Lindsay Turner, The Upstate
A. Zachary Light, More Sure: Poems and Interruptions
Mark Forster, Do It Tomorrow (R)
Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible
R.A. Lafferty, Nine Hundred Grandmothers
Thomas Bernhard, Concrete, trans. David McClintock
Dorian Lynskey, The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984.
Dina-Marie Kulzer, Television Series of the Fifties and Sixties in Interview
Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish