Christopher Dewdney, Radiant Inventory
Benjamin Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World, trans. Adrian Nathan West
Matthew D. Morrison, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town
Gerald Murnane, The Plains
Good Evening Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
Emma Cline, The Guest
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
Robert C. Becker, Property Rights: A Philosophical Exploration
Rowan Moore, Property: The Myth that Built the World
Joyce Carol Oates, The Goddess and Other Stories
Joelle McSweeney, Death Styles
june 2024 reading
Natalie Oleh, Class
Amelia Gentelman, The Windrush Betrayal: Escaping the Hostile Environment
Gerald Murnane, Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction
Dean Young, Strike Anywhere
Anthony Storr, Solitude
Daniel Karlin, Proust’s English
Alfred Hayes, In Love
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, trans. Margaret Sayers Pedon
Diedrich Diederichsen, Aesthetics of Pop Music
Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence
Ross Raisin, Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer
Violette Ailhard, The Seed Man, trans. Nancy Huston
Elizabeth Prettijohn, John Singer Sargent
may 2024 reading
Evan Thompson, Why I Am Not a Buddhist
Lisa Barg, Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
Caroline Véniza, Jazz à la Creole: French Creole Music and the Birth of Jazz
Hiromi Kawakami, Parade, trans. Allison Markin Powell
Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness
Joyce Carol Oates, High Crime Area
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, trans. David Ross
Alan Lomax, Mister Jelly Roll
Thomas Bernhardt, The Cheap-Eaters, trans. Douglas Robertson
april reading 2024
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