keeping the job 2/17-23

[or, 5 things I did last week]

1. Wrote a pedantic footnote about the terms “musical work” and “mechanical reproduction.”
2. Wrote 300 words of a prose piece about losing a combination lock.
3. Explained Fred Rose’s role in country music publishing to a filmmaker with an interest in singing cowboys.
4. Attended a talk/book launch by David Hajdu w/ George Lewis and others, and a chamber opera based on the Baldwin/Buckley debate; heard Matthew Shipp play twice at the Stone.
5. Paid my father’s bills online.

+ did my cardio 5 days of 7; laundry.

[Not going to list most reading in these posts to limit redundancy.]

january 2025 reading

Jessica Laser, The Goner School
Paul K. Saint-Amour, The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination
Paul Gilbert, Counseling for Depression
Sally Keith, River House
Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot, trans. Marjam Idriss
Ariel Yelen, I Was Working
Olga Ravn, The Employees, trans. Martin Aitken
Literature from Around the World (Prentice-Hall, no editor listed)
Stephen Dixon, Movies
Alexander Kluge, Cinema Stories, trans. Martin Brady & Helen Hughes
Robert Talisse, Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance
A.D. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life, trans Mary Ryan

december 2024 reading

Terry Eagleton, Scholars & Rebels in Nineteeth-Century Ireland
Thomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World, trans. Robin Robertson
Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals
Brenda Uleman, So You Want to Write
Anna Moschovakis, An Earthquake is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth
Richard Bausch, Spirits
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, trans. David Magarshack
Netsuke Soseki, Kokoro, trans. Edwin McClellan

November 2024 reading

rob mclennan, On Beauty
Brandon Som, Tripas
Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
Leslie Sainz, Have You Been Long Enough at Table?
Adolf Muschg, The Blue Man and Other Stories, trans. Marlis Zeller Cambon and Michael Hamburger
Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel
Kenneth Koch, The Art of Love
Robert Sheckley, Do You Feel Anything When I Do This?
Jonathan Portes, 50 Capitalism Ideas You Really Need to Know
Li-Young Lee, The Book of My Nights

october 2024 reading

V. Joshua Adams, Past Lives
Kenneth Koch, Thank You and Other Poems
Gerald Murnane, Inland
Michael Downing, Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center
Joseph Horowitz, Dvořak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
John Sellars, Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher
L.P. Hartley, The Harness Room
Jeff Dolven, Senses of Style: Poetry Before Interpretation
Ted Joans, Black Pow-Wow
Kenneth Koch, The Pleasures of Peace
L.P. Hartley, Simonetta Perkins
Cait McKinney, I Know You Are, but What Am I?: On Pee-Wee Herman
David Walsh, Beginning Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Richard Osborne, Owning the Masters: A History of Sound Recording Copyright
Jorge Luis Borges, Poems of the Night, various translators
Frank J. Bruno, A Kiss To Build a Death On