Eric Weisbard, Hound Dog
Stacey Levine, Mice 1961
John Ryan, The Production of Culture in the Music Industry: The ASCAP-BMI Feud (R)
Georges Simenon, Pietr the Latvian, trans. David Bellos
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Wayne Kostenbaum, Stubble Archipelago
Robert Spoo, Modernism and the Law
Krisitn Hersh, The Future of Songwriting
Peter Blegvad, Milk, Through a Glass Darkly
august 2024 reading
Elijah Wald, Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs & Hidden Histories
Simone White, Of Being Dispersed
The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982
Virginia Woolf, How Should a Book Be Read?, intr. Shiela Heti
Joyce Carol Oates, The (Other) You
Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor, trans. Stephen Snyder
Joyce Carol Oates, The Assignation
Michael Heller & James Salzman, Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control our Lives
Thomas Bernhard, Goethe Dies, trans. James Seidel
Randall D. Wixen, The Plain & Simple Guide to Music Publishing, 4th ed.
Amir Aczel, The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed
Krista K. Thomason, Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good
july 2024 reading
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