BOOK LOG This used to be a log of books we've red where location in time was significant to the reading, but post 2020 we haven't done much travelling so now it's a more sedentary reading log... 2024 Femoid by S.A.B Marcie (in editorial capacity) : NYC | Nov 2024 Vela by Knar Gavin + The Gravedigger Kid by Vonneumann + Matteo Uggeri (aka Barnacles): NYC | Nov 2024 his abattoir is a college by orchid tierney (as editor/designer) : NYC | OCT 2024 for disobeying by sasha hawkins (as editor/designer) : NYC | Oct 2024 Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden by Michael Joyce, The Pale King by David Foster Wallace + Transverse by 최 Lindsay : home-hunting in NYC | Oct 2024 Dream Haiti by Kamau Brathwaite : 455 CPW | Oct 2024 Cells by Lucianna Chixaro Ramos : tip of Manhattan in2 the Bronx | Sept 2024 Backwardness by Garielle Lutz : 455 CPW | summer 2024 Glitch Poetics by Nathan Allen Jones : 455 CPW | Sept 2024 The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe + Botánica Humana + Hiperanotación by Kenji Siratori : to/from Rockaway | Aug 2024 Spit Temple by Cecilia Vicuña : NYC | Aug 2024 Zone C by Rosaire Appel : 455 CPW | Aug 2024 Official Report on the Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 by The Ministry of Transrational Research : on train for home inspection in Greenwood | July 2024 Panopticon by Jeremy Bentham/Cloak : home-hunting in BKLYN | July 2024 Strange Cures by Rob Zabrecky : LAX > NYC | July 2024 The Magical Thinking by Joan Didion + Post Office by Charles Bukowski : Santa Monica | July 2024 33⅓ : Ramones by Nicholas Rombes : Malibu > Santa Monica | July 2024 Liarmouth by John Waters : Pismo > Solvang > Calabasas | July 2024 Fugitive Assemblage by Jennifer Calkins : Santa Barbara to Pismo Beach | July 2024 David Lynch: The Man from Another Place by Dennis Lim : LA to Santa Barbara | July 2024 Unearthingly by Julian Mithra + Die Closer to Me by David Kuhnlein : Albuquerque to LA | July 2024 Sister Golden Calf by Colleen Burner : Monument Valley, UT to Albuquerque, NM | July 2024 The Half-drowned by Trynne Delaney + The Book of Webs by Jesse Kohn : Williamsburg, NYC to Santa Fe, NM | June 2024 You Are Here by Donald Breckenridge, the nature machine! by Tyler Gillespie + Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec (+ Blood Electric) : NYC | June 2024 Blood Electric by Kenji Siratori (2 make ^ cover), Lisa 2 by Nicholas Rombes (in ^n editorial capacity), Colony Beyond the City of Ruins by Janalyn Guo (2 make ^ cover) + Midnight Grotesques by Tristan Foster + Michelle Lynn Dyrness : having a schizophremic meltdown in NYC | June 2024 Loose Corpse by Kenji Siratori, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes + Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins by Janalyn Guo : NYC (w/ a bloody eye toward reissuing) | June 2024 Autobiography of the [Undead] by Emilio Carrero (in an editorial capacity) + The Blue of Her Body by Sara Greenslit : 455 CPW | May 2024 Libretto Lunaversitol by Andrew C. Wenaus + Kenji Siratori, No Measure by Kelly Krumrie, Tonalamatl by Steven Alvarez + The Man in the Stretcher by Kenneth Bernard : NYC (in an editorial capacity) | May 2024 Subsoil/Subsuelo by EL L¡BROTORIO [¡!] PR!NT RUN + friends + Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei : Nyack, NY + back | May 20124 The Xicano Genome by Steven Alvarez + The Rolodex Happenings by Dennis James Sweeney : down + in NYC | May 2024 Who Cares Anyway by Will York + Amalgam #3 : NYC (getting on Instagram) | April 2024 Paper Machine by Jacques Derrida : NYC | April 2024 Golokwati: by Kamau Brathwaite : NYC | April 2024 (during solar eclipse) Dear Ra by Johannes Göransson, The Nines by Christian Peet (reread) + M by John Cage : NYC | March 2024 The Inner Reaches of Outer Space by Joseph Campbell + The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener : Gowanus Canal + Westside 2 WTC | March 2024 Autoportrait by Édouard Levé + The Girl with Brown Fur by Stacey Levine : Hoboken + PLG | March 2024 Cipher by Molly Brodak, Diving the Wreck by Adrienne Rich (2nd time), Endorsed by Jack Chapeau 2 an even greater extent by Ted Pelton, Cartilage and Skin by Michael James Rizza + Animal Sanctuary by Sarah Falkner : Vinegar Hill | March 2024 The Pyschic Surgeon Assists by Zebulon House + Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows by Leslie Scalapino : NYC | Feb 2024 The Compleat Memoirrhoids by Steve Katz : 455 CPW | Feb 2024 The Petals of Your Eyes by Aimee Parkison : NYC | 1st book of Feb 2024 Embarrassed of the (W)hole, McTlán by Steven Alvarez + Paper Snake by Ray Johnson : NYC | launching zzz ><((°> XX end of Jan 2024 Declarations of the Technical Word as Such + Ω – 1 Chronotopologic Workings both by Andrew C. Wenaus, The Apology by Christian Tebordo, Dreams of Amputation by Gary Shipley + Necrology by Gary J Shipley + Kenji Siratori : NYC | Jan 2024 We the Animals by Justin Torres + Tender by Sofia Samatar : on subway to/from Leffert Gardens + Prospect Heights | Jan 2024 Black Paper by Teju Cole : on subway to/from L.i.C. | Jan 2024 White Horse by Erika T. Wurth : NYC | Jan 2024 Travesty Generator by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram + On a Certain Practical Uncertainty by Federico Federici : considering Red Hook | Jan 2024 Erewhon by Samuel Butler: NYC | first book of 2024 2023 Barabajan Poems: 1492-1992 by Kamau Brathwaite : Greenwood Cemetary | final book of 2023 A Phantom Zero by Ryu Ando, Cyborg by R.G. Vasicek + The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon by Latif Askia Ba : 455 CPW | Dec 2023 South by Babak Lakghomi : 455 CPW | Dec 2023 Dead End by Michel Surya, The Animal of Existsence by Jared Daniel Fagen, A History of Present Illness by Anna DeForest + Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie : Randall Island, Washington Heights + South Slope | Dec 2023 R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, The Moons by Yuxin Zhao (as editor) + wordtomydead by sadé powell : Park Slope, Bklyn | Nov 2023 Journey to Karabakh by Aka Morchiladze : NOT travelling from Georgia to Azerbaijan | Nov 2023 The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, The Body, The Rooms by Andy Frazee + We Have with Us Your Sky by Melanie Hubbard : NOT travelling to Turkey | Nov 2023 Vanishing Point by David Markson, Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere by Robert Lopez + Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett : 455 CPW, NYC | Oct 2023 Death-in-a-Box by Alta Ifland + We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets : 61st + 5th, NYC | Oct 2023 X by John Cage, Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night by Tracy DeBrincat + Man Years by Sandra Doller : NYC | Oct 2023 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko + The Master Key by L. Frank Baum : NYC (TiME5 5QUARE) | Oct 2023 Gentle Art by Iphgenia Baal: to/from Red Hook | Oct 2023 Love Chronicles of the Octopodes by Karen An-hwei Lee + Song & Glass by Stan Mir : NYC (corresponding to «Weatherman Waltz» | Oct 2023 Experiemental Animals by Thalia Field, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Body High by Jon Lindsey, F-stein by L.J. Moore + Rise of the Machines by Thomas Rid : 455 CPW | Sept 2023 Dream Delivery Service by Mathias Svalina : 455 CPW | Sept 2023 Ex-Members by Tobias Carroll, Back in the World by Tobias Wolff, Self-Titled Debut by Andrew Farkas + As It Falls by Donald Breckenridge : NYC | 9/11/23 Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany + My Untimely Death by Adam Peterson : 455 CPW | Sept 2023 Zone One by Colson Whitehead, I am writing Captain Maxiums by Barry Hannah : downtown NYC | Aug 2023 Ancestors + X/Self by Kamau Brathwaite : NYC | Aug 2023 Cassette 68, M A C H I N E + After[image] by R.G. Vasicek + Anti-Face by Michael Nicoloff : The Bronx | Aug 2023 The Explosions by Mathias Svalina : Sugarhill/Washington Heights | Aug 2023 Liner Notes by James Brubaker : 455 CPW | Aug 2023 Boundless as the Sky by Dawn Raffel : Sunset Park + Bay Ridge | July 2023 Manhatitlán by Steven Alvarez : Governor's isL& | July 2023 The Sound of Culture by Louis Chude-Sokei : 112-113 streets | July 2023 The Ask by Sam Lipsyte, Ignorance by Milan Kundera + Sound of Culture by Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei : 455 CPW | July 2023 [...] by Ava Hoffman, A Luminous History of the Palm by Jessica Sequiera, Keeping the House by Tice Cin + Oyez Review 50 : 110-111 streets, NYC | July 2023 Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus by Kristin Abraham : waiting for the train to Williamsburg | June 2023 Kinderkrankenhaus by Jesi Bender : on train to/from Coney Island | June 2023 The Museum of Atheism by Laura Ellen Joyce (re-read w/ an eye to re-issue) : NYC | June 2023 t zero by Italo Calvino + Swann's Way by Proust : last books read in DC | May 2023 The Hypothetical Man by Paul Maliszewski + Ryan Weil + Monster Portraits by Sofia + Del Samatar : DC | May 2023 Zero K by Don Delillo + Red Earth by Michael Salu (w/ eye to publish) : DC | April 2023 The Literature Machine by Italo Calvino + Autobiology by Joanna Walsh : DC | April 2023 The Complete Ballet by John Haskell + Someone Took They Tongue by Douglas Kearney : DC | April 2023 Dark Neighborhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi + A Field Companion for Wandering by Conner Bouchard-Roberts : DC (during house inspection) | April 2023 Punks by John Keene : DC | April 2023 Aetui: Pentagram Poems by Jessica Hagy, The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, South Dakota Review 56.2, Firmament Vol 3 No 1 + What Just Happened by James Gleick : DC | Mar 2023 [title] by [name of author], Kerotakis by Janice Lee, The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira + How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon : DC | Mar 2023 Adventures With The Elderly + Nail Polish issue iii : DC | Mar 2023 How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies + The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra | DC (doing taxes) | Feb 2023 Genesis : Greensburg, PA | Feb 2023 Soft-Focus Slaughterhouse by Dylan Krieger + I–IV by John Cage : home (planning 2 sell) | Jan 2023 Silence by John Cage (re-read) : home, purging | Jan 2023 Rock Steady: Healing Vertigo or Tinnitus with Neuroplasticity by Joey Remeny, Migraine by Oliver Sacks, The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall, A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line by Vi Khi Nao + The Bringers of Fruit by Elizabeth Switaj : back in DC | Jan 2023 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (reread) : Fiumicino, Italy to JFK | Jan 2023 Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke : Puglia to Ravello, Italy | Jan 2023 2022 Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani : Puglia | Dec 2022 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut : Salento, Puglia | Dec 2022 The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy : Chioggia to Puglia, Italy | Dec 2022 The White Album by Joan Didion : Rome to Chioggia, Italy | Dec 2022 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor + Edisto by Padget Powell : DC to Rome | Dec 2022 Chaos, Creativity + Cosmic Consciousness by Rupert Sheldrake, Terrence McKenna + Ralph Abraham : DC | Nov 2022 From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner : DC | Nov 2022 Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams : DC | Nov 2022 Dalí's Mustache by Salvador Dalí + Philippe Halsman : DC | Oct 2022 The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (re-read) : DC > Baltimore | Oct 2022 An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus : NYC | Oct 2022 Where the Sky Meets the Ocean and the Air Tastes Like Metal and the Birds Don't Make a Sound by Mike Kleine + Dan Hoy : NYC | Oct 2022 Walden by H.D. Thoreau : Boston to Mystic, CT + NYC | Sept–Oct 2022 Gut Text by Mike Corrao : Berkshires to Boston | Sept 2022 Bright Stupid Confetti by Gary Shipley : Berkshires, MA | Sept 2022 Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine : Catskills, NY | Sept 2022 Making Kin Not Population, edited by Adele C. Clarke + Donna Haraway : DC > Poconos | Sept 2022 What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly : DC | Sept 2022 Cybernetics by Norbert Weiner : DC | September 2022 ZER000 EXCESS by Jake Reber, Human Tetris by Vi Khi Nao & Ali Raz + How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan : DC/GPT-3 | August 2022 Fidelitoria (Fixed or Fluxed) by Candice Wuehle : DC | July 2022 Naked Thoughts by Róbert Gál : North Carolina > DC | July 2022 Roadside Picnic by by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky : DC > Blue Ridge Mtns | July 2022 Valis by Philip K. Dick : DC > Vesuvius, VA | July 2022 Push by Tommy Caldwell, An Archipelago in a Landlocked Country by Elisa Taber + Third World Magicks by Mike Kleine : DC | July 2022 Whole Earth Catalog : DC (in prep for X- country roadtrip) | June 2022 The Invisible Landscape by the McKenna brothers : DC | June 2022 Rituals Performed bin the Absence of Ganymede by Mike Corraro : DC | May 2022 Collected Voices in the Expanded Field, Drifter by David Leo Rice + Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas : DC (not Seattle) | May 2022 The Employees by Olga Ravn + SYNC by Steven Strogatz : DC | May 2022 Worsted by Gary Lutz, Agnomia by Róbert Gál + The Man Who Mistoook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks, Worsted by Garielle Lutz + The Garden by Louis Armand | April 2022 No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood + Canyons by James Belflower + Matthew Klane : NYC > DC | April 2022 Pattern Recognition by William Gibson : DC > NYC | April 2022 Revolutionary Mathematics: Articifical Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism by Justin Joque : DC | April 2022 Begat Who Begat Who Begat by Marcus Pactor : NYC | April 2022 Pamela: A Novel by Pamela Lu + The Quiet American by Graham Greene : DC | Mar 2022 Artifact by Germán Sierra : DC | Mar 2022 Worsted by Garielle Lutz : NYC 2 DC | Mar 2022 Open Life: In Conversation With Joseph Campbell : DC 2 NYC | Mar 2022 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin : DC | post #1000 on 2/22/22 Limits to Growth by Club of Rome : DC | post #999 The Removed by Brandon Hobson, Tomorrow Music by Pete Stevens + When Our Fathers Returns to Us as Birds by Peter Markus : DC | 2/22 Antipodes by J.C. Mehta : DC | 2/22 Underworld by Don Delillo + Search History by Eugene Lim : DC | 2/22 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (listen, while walking 2 Roosevelt I-L& | 1/22 Anthem by Ayn Rand : DC (listened 2, while contempl8ing word 5quares) | 1/22 Personhood by Thalia Field : DC (5th st NE) | January 2022 The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche : DC (listened 2, while making 7 fish pie) | Jan 2022 2021 Selected + Collected Gertrude Stein (from 3 diffrent volumes) : last books read in 2021 Telephone by Percival Everett : D.C.ember 2021 Hunger by Knut Hamsun : Frankfurt > DC | December 2021 Brooding by Michael Martone : Bologna > Frankfurt | December 2021 IDP: 2043 + 2 books by Nick Bantock: last week in Bologna | November 2021 Naive, Super by Erlend Loe : western Sardinia | November 2021 Blow-Up + Other Stories by Julio Cortázar : on way to + in Sardinia (eastern) | November 2021 Animals in Motion by David Ryan : last days «living» in Bologna | November 2021 Dog Days by Patrice Nganang : Bologna | November 2021 The Gateless Gate : Bologna | October 2021 Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans : Amalfi coast + Rimini | Oct 2021 The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini : Bologna | Sept–Oct 2021 Essays and Fictions by Brad Phillips : Bologna (via Rizzoli) | Sept 2021 Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar : Bologna (via San Petronio Vecchio) | Sept 2021 The Death of a Character by David Ohle : Dolomites > Bologna | Sept 2021 Ask the Dust by John Fante : Bologna > Verona | Sept 2021 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk : DC > Munich | August 2021 Unnatural Selection + Far Side Gallery 2 by Gary Larson, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica + Related Systems by Kurt Gödel, Zen Comics by Ioanna Salajan + there's no telling what... by Rosaire Appel : last books read in DC before leaving for Bologna Echolalia in Script by Sam Roxas-Chua 姚 + Liner Notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus Sketchbook + Transcripts from Demagnetized Tapes by Federico Federici : DC | Aug 2021 The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby : DC (culling books to bring to Bologna) | July 2021 The Complete Lutz : DC | July 2021 Landscapes of Living & Dying by Lawrence Ferlinghetti : DC | July 2021 Siddharta by Herman Hesse : DC | July 2021 (corresponding to Tributaries release) We Were Called Specimens by Jason Teal : Philadelphia to DC | June 2021 Meow by Mark Baumer : to Brooklyn | June 2021 Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? by Jessica Fanzo, The Golden Serpeant by Ciro Alegría, Rag by Maryse Meijer, Steps by Jerzy Kosinski, Whalestoe Lettersby by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead by Chanelle Benz + Swerve by Vincent James, McCormick Templeman, and Rowland Saifi : DC | June 2021 No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July : DC | June 2021 Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold : in an armchair in DC | May 2021 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake : DC | May 2021 Anagrams by Lorrie Moore, THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol, This Is A Book by Demetri Martin + a few other ½-read books : DC | April 2021 The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat : Chincoteague | April 2021 Timbuktu by Paul Auster : DC | April 2021, processing G's death In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien + a few other ½-reads for the March 2021 round-up Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation and Change by Tao Lin + Flight Into Egypt by Timothy C. Ely : DC | March 2021 Undula by Bruno Schulz + The Lives of Animal by J.M. Coetzee : DC | early March 2021 Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman + Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein : DC | end of February 2021 Strange as this Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake + The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (partial reads) : DC | February book round-up Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta : DC | Feb 2021 (c)opyrights and (ɔ)opywrongs by Siva Vaidhyanthan : DC | Feb 2021 Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein : snowy/locked down DC | Jan 2021 Alice Knott by Blake Butler : DC | end of Jan book roundup The Book of Formation by Ross Simonini + Corona Panic Score by Rosaire Appel : DC | Jan 2021 John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz : DC | Jan 2021 Mess and Mess and by Douglas Kearney + What It Feels Like to Cry with Your Brain by Mark Baumer : DC | 1st books of 2021 2020 The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli : DC (last book read in 2020) Harvestman by Steve Von Till, Crazy Horse's Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Ranier Rilke, House of Prayer No. 2 by Mark Richard, Fanged Noumena by Nick Land, The Reivers by William Faulkner + An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin : DC (end of year round-up) | Dec 2020 Geronimo: His Own Story by Geronimo : DC (reflecting on AZ) | Dec 2020 the day i died and left america by Mark Baumer + Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem : DC | Dec 2020 Manifestly Haraway by Donna J. Haraway : DC | Dec 2020 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond : DC | Oct-Nov 2020 Foundation by Isaac Asimov : DC (V + W streets N) | Nov 2020 N + 1 issue 33 + Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates : DC (N-O-P-Q streets NE) | Oct 2020 The Declaration of Independence + The Constitution DC : (K-L-M streets NW) | Oct 2020 The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery : DC (K–M streets NW) | Oct 2020 The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma : DC (F + G streets N) | Sept 2020 West with the Night by Beryl Markham : DC (C + D streets SE) | Sept 2020 Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber (re-read) : DC (D + E streets N) | Sept 2020 The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories by Amos Tutuola + ½-read a few others : DC (1st + A streets) | Sept 2020 One, None and A Hundred-Thousand by Luigi Pirandello + Flatland by a sqaure : pondering all things 1-dimensional | Aug 2020 The Ask by Sam Lipsyte : DC (Michigan + South Dakota avenues) | Aug 2020 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez : DC (Missouri + North Dakota Aves) | Aug 2020 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan : DC | Aug 2020 Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire + Unexplained Presence by Tisa Bryant (+ 3 more) : DC | July 2020 (as our mom was dying) The Free-lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed : DC | June-July 2020 Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence + Robert E. Lee, Weep Not, Child by by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o + Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson : DC | June 2020 I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett : Minnesota Ave, DC | June 2020 The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois : DC | Juneteenth 2020 Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney : DC | June 2020 (biking Utah + Nebraska aves NW) NW by Zadie Smith : NW DC | June 2020 Earth Abides by George R. Stewart + we talk about some other books not yet mentioned here (for Black Books Matter) : DC | June 2020 What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr + Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Aldous Huxley : DC (under curfewed police state) | May 2020 All the Names by Jose Saramago : DC (w/ COVID death toll ≈ 350k) | May 2020 The Mentally Ill by Hans Prinzhorn : DC (under house arrest) | Jan–May 2020 Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill : DC | May 2020 Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick + Dream City by Harry Jaffe : DC (Georgia Ave) | April 2020 Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris : DC (self-isolation) | April 2020 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh : DC (in self-isolation) | April 2020 The Sportswriter by Richard Ford + The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes : DC (home-bound) | April 2020 Mutant by Henry Kuttner/Lewis Padgett + Neuromancer by William Gibson : DC (under COVID self-isolation) | April 2020 Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World by Pico Iyer | DC (Hawaii + P.R. aves) | Mar 2020 No Place One Earth by Christa Wolf + On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong : DC (Ohio Drive) | Mar 2020 The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth, The Carrying by Ada Limón + Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts by Lawrence Raab : DC (Penn Ave) | Mar 2020 James Joyce's Ulysses by Stuart Gilbert : DC (finishing "SSEY') | Feb 2020 The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (re-re-read) : Oregon Ave, DC | Feb 2020 Night Falls Past: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison : DC | Feb 2020 The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis : Bw/Odymore, M.D. | Jan 2020 Prometheus Unbound by Percy Shelley : DC | Jan 2020 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Actual by Saul Bellow + White Fang by Jack London : Florida to DC | Jan 2020 Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed : Gainesville, FL | Jan 2020 The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares + Final Del Juego by Julio Cortázar : Florida | Jan 2020 Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner : DCA > JAX | Jan 2020 Foreign Objects by David Reisman + 3 books from Oomph!/Alex Gregor: DC | Jan 2020 Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata + White Center by Richard Hugo : DC | 1st books read in 2020 2019 Black Magic Woman # Zero Point Negro by I Rivers : DC | last book read in 2019 Nox by Anne Carson : DC (not Kansas) | Dec 2019 Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel : DC > NYC + NYC > DC | Dec 2019 Humanesis by David Cecchetto : DC | Nov-Dec 2019 A Dog Between Us by Duncan Barlow : Baltimore + DC | Oct 2019 Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia by Blake Butler : Baltimore > DC | Oct 2019 Notes from the Fog by Ben Marcus : DC > NYC | Sept 2019 + NYC > DC | Dec 2019 Junky by William Burroughs (re-re-read) : Baltimore > DC (NJ ave) | Aug 2019 I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes : kicking off DC Mirocosm | Aug 2019 Spain by Caren Beilin + Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson : PDX > DCA (via Ohio) | Aug 2019 Abortion by Richard Brautigan : Oregon > Norcal | Aug 2019 Fugitives + Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk + The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin : DCA > PDX | Aug 2019 A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : Swann st | June-July 2019 Make/Shift by Joe Sacksteder : 1st book read on Swann st | May 2019 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand : Rome > Naples > DC | March 2019 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky : last book read in Rome | Spring 2019 Floating Notes by Babak Lakghomi : DC > Rome | Feb 2019 Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson : Rome > DC | Feb 2019 Hombres de Maíz by Miguel Asturias : SE Spain | Jan 2019 2018 Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard : Vienna, Austria | Dec 2018 The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan : recording un in Rome | 2018 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein : Florence | Nov 2018 The Sarah book by Scott McClanahan : Baltimore/DC | Oct 2018 All Back Full by Robert Lopez : Rome > NYC | Sept 2018 Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (reread) : Bologna, IT | Sept 2018 Monkey Grip by Helen Garner + Praise by Andrew McGahan : Melbourne, Oz| Aug 2018 Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (reread) : Canberra, Australia | Aug 2018 J R by William Gaddis : Rome | July 2018 The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński : Naples/Ischia | July 2018 The Tunnel by William Gass + Relevance by Sperber + Wilson: Rome | May 2018 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey + Opium by Jean Cocteau : Lazio | May 2018 In the Realms of the Unreal: Insane Writings : Rome | April 2018 Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo : Rione XI, Rome | March 2018 Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim : Rione XII, Rome | Feb 2018 Ambient Parking Lot by Pamela Lu : DC > Rome | Jan-Feb 2018 Prayers and Parables by Paul Maliszewski : DC/Baltimore | Jan 2018 2017 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut : South Africa/Namibia | Dec 2017 Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee : en route to Cape Town, S. Africa | Dec 2017 Buckskin Cocaine by Erika T. Wurth + Bateau 7.1 + Franticham's Fluxus Island : NYC > DC > Baltimore | Nov 2017 A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal + Meetings With Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff : Greenpoint, Bklyn | Nov 2017 Kingdom Come by JG Ballard : London/Heathrow to DC | Oct 2017 Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier : DC to London | Oct 2017 El Aleph (in spanish) by Jorge Luis Borges : Buenos Aires to DC | Oct 2017 Mao II by Don Delillo : en route to Buenos Aires | Oct 2017 Zone by Mathias Énard : to + from Rome | Oct 2017 The Last Bongo Sunset by Les Plesko + The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus : DC | Sept 2017 The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll : Brooklyn | Sept 2017 Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (reread) : Guanajuato to DC | Sept 2017 Lazarillo de Tormes : en route to Guanajuato, Mexico | Sept 2017 The Loser by Thomas Bernhard : DC | Sept 2017 (archiving our final cassette) Things That Happened Before The Earthquake by Chiara Barzini : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving California, 1989) Sunblind Almost Motorcrash by Daniel Mahoney : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving SC 1989) Flatland by Edwin Abbott : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving Santa Cruz, 1987) Codex Mojaodicus by Steven Alvarez : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving Mexico, 1986) Intimacy by Stanley Crawford : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving Palto Alto, 1986) Family Album by Jason Snyder : DC | Aug 2017 (archiving the Bay Area, 1984-85) Fakers by Paul Maliszewski : DC | July 2017 Gnome by Robert Lunday, Theoretical Animals by Gary Shipley + Great Jones Street by Don Delillo : NYC | July 2017 The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya : DC | spring/summer 2017 (writing A Raft Manifest) Assisted Living by Gary Lutz : Vegas to DC | June 2017 The Babysitter at Rest by Jen George : DC to Vegas | June 2017 Of Flesh and Fur and The City, Awake by Duncan Barlow : DC | June 2017 The Blue Cliff Record : DC (w/ our bedder-½ in China) | May 2017 The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan : DC/Baltimore | May 2017 Inside My Pencil by Peter Markus : DC/Baltimore | May 2017 Hank by Abrham Smith + Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson : DC/B-Timor | April (tax-time) 2017 New Animals by Nick Francis Potter : Georgetown | Mar 2017 Coyote America by Dan Flores : Baltimore/DC | Mar 2017 Popol Vuh (reread) : Cuernavaca, MX > Baltimore | Mar 2017 The Story of my Teeth by Valeria Luiselli : DC > CDMX | Feb 2017 a bunch of small-press chapbooks : B-Timor | Feb 2017 The Parasite by Michel Serres : LA > DC + during AWP | Feb 2017 Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao + No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre : DC > N. California | Jan 2017 Hidden Water by Frank Stanford : DC | Jan 2017 2016 The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm:: 1° book read in new Georgetown digs | Fall 2016 Macbeth by William Shakespeare :: Stockholm > DC > Baltimore | Dec 2016 Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze :: Rome > Brussels > Stockholm | Dec 2016 The Flood by Emile Zola :: Rome > Amalfi > Naples | Dec 2016 The Leg of Lamb by Benjamin Péret :: Montpellier > Paris > Rome | Nov 2016 Sometimes We Walk With Our Nails Out by Sarah Bartlett + The Lives of Animals by JM Coetzee :: Portland > DC> Copenhagen | Nov 2016 Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain :: DC to Columbia River Gorge | Nov 2016 Translating Mo'Um by Cathy Park Hong :: Cancun > DC | Oct 2016 Breaking the Maya Code by Michael D. Coe :: Cancun, Mexico | Oct 2016 Watt by Samuel Beckett :: Dorset, UK to DC | Oct 2016 Potted Meat by Steven Dunn :: DC > London | Sept 2016 Good People by Robert Lopez :: DC > NYC | Sept 2016 What is Posthumanism by Cary Wolfe :: Kenya > DC | Aug 2016 Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett :: Nairobi > Isiolo | Aug 2016 In the House of the Interpreter by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o :: DC > Nairobi | Aug 2016 No Longer Art (A Narrative), Wonderland by Samuel Ligon + The Black Automaton by Douglas Kearney :: last books read in Capitol Hill, DC | Aug 2016 The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett (reread) :: UK > DC | July 2016 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett (reread) :: Bath, England | July 2016 Molloy by Samuel Beckett (reread) :: France > UK | July 2016 Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze :: Montpellier > Provence, France | June 2016 A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud :: Rome > Sanremo > Nice > Montpellier | June 2016 Swann's Way by Marcel Proust :: DC > Rome | June 2016 Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche :: DC—Baltimore | June 2016 Letter from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi :: Yangon > Bangkok | June 2016 Burmese Days by George Orwell :: Burma (Bagan) | May 2016 From the Land of Green Ghosts by Pascal Khoo Thwe :: DC > Myanmar (via Dubai + Bangkok) | May 2016 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (reread) : SF > DC | April-May 2016 Selected Writings of Henri Michaux :: NYC > San Francisco | April 2016 Memoir of the Hawk by James Tate :: DC > NYC | April 2016 Iskandariyah Skan by Ingo Giezendanner + fps: still moves by Rosaire Appel :: DC | madness of March 2016 Onto-Cartography by Levi Bryant :: DC > NYC > DC | Mar 2016 Dark Spring by Unica Zürn + The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso :: London > DC > NYC | Feb-Mar 2016 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (reread) :: DC > London | Feb 2016 Siamese by Stig Sæterbakken :: NYC > DC | Feb 2016 End of the Story by Lydia Davis :: DC > NYC | Feb 2016 Favorite Folktales from around the World (edited by Jane Yolen) + Dreams by C.G. Jung :: DC | Jan 2016 Fiesta en la Madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos :: Puerto Vallarta > DC | Jan 2016 El Pozo y Las Ruinas by Jimena Néspolo :: Puerto Vallarta, MX | Jan 2016 Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo :: en route to Punta Mita, Mexico | Jan 2016 2015 3 books by Kamau Brathwaite + few others :: DC | last books read in Dec 2015 Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop :: DC | Dec 2015 The Boy in His Winter by Norman Lock + Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban + McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh + The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer :: NYC to DC | Nov 2015 Between the World and Me by Te-Nehisi Coates :: Atlanta to NYC | Nov 2015 Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord :: DC to Atlanta | Nov 2015 The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth + A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess :: DC | Oct 2015 The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King + Annotations by John Keene :: DC (+ to Baltimore) | Oct 2015 Not Nothing by Ray Johnson :: DC + (to Baltimore) | Oct 2015 The Heights of Despair by EM Cioran :: Aspen to DC | Sept 2015 Seed by Stanley Crawford :: DC to Aspen | Sept 2015 Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones :: the 1st book read living in The District | Sept 2015 Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida :: the last book read in NYC (+ Queens) | Aug 2015 The Gotham Grammarian by Gary Lutz :: last Calamari book edited in NYC | Aug 2015 Ecce Homo by Nietzsche + The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen :: NYC/DC | July 2015 300,00,000 by Blake Butler :: NYC/Baltimore | July 2015 New Science by Giambattista Vico :: Rome > Milan > NYC | June 2015 The Passioniate Years by Caresse Crosby :: NYC to Monte Verità, Switzerland | June 2015 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson :: San Juan Island to NYC | June 2015 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner & Dream Machine by Sade Murphy :: NYC to Seattle | June 2015 To Save Everything Click Here by Evgeny Morozov :: The Inurnet | June 2015 Finnegans Wake By James Joyce (reread) + The Skeleton Key ... by Joesph Campbell :: NYC > Boston > Zurich > Rome (Portuense) > Rome (Vatican) > NorCal/Santa Barbara > Monterey > London > LHR > JFK > NYC | April/May 2015 Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec :: Boston > New Yawk | Mar 2015 Fancy by Jeremy M. Davies :: Rome > Zürich > Boston | Mar 2015 Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen by Shane Anderson :: London > Rome (Monteverde) | Mar 2015 High-Rise by J.G. Ballard :: Naples > London | Mar 2015 No Moon by Julie Reverb :: Rome > Naples | Mar 2015 Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle :: NYC > Rome (Vatican) | Mar 2015 Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot :: Rome > NYC | Feb 2015 No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf :: Rome (Foro Romano) | Feb 2015 Big Ray by Michael Kimball :: Paris > Rome (Ostiense) | Feb 2015 Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon :: Nepal to Paris (via Abu Dhabi) | Feb 2015 The Strangers by Eugene Lim :: Delhi to Pokhara, Nepal | Feb 2015 Inner Experience by Georges Bataille :: Rome > Delhi | Jan 2015 Amerika by Franz Kafka :: leaving NYC for Rome | Jan 2015 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (re-read) :: Hong Kong to NYC | Jan 2015 Pure Immanence by Gilles Deleuze :: Penang > Bali | Jan 2015 How Natives Think by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl :: West Timor + on way to Penang | Jan 2015 We the Living by Ayn Rand :: Lombok to Bali | Jan 2015 2014 Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish :: NYC to Bali via Hong Kong | Dec 2014 Instan by Cecilia Vicuña :: lower Maphattan | Dec 2014 Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli :: Maphattan | Dec 2014 Instant of My Death/Demeure: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot/Jacques Derrida :: DC/Baltimore to NYC | Nov 2014 Virgil Russell by Percival Everett :: NY to Baltimore/DC | Nov 2014 A Short History of Decay by E.M Cioran :: NY, NY | Nov 2014 The Other City by Michal Ajvaz :: Princeton, NJ | Oct 2014 How the Hippies Saved Physics by David Kaiser :: Italy to JFK | Oct 2014 Discomfort by Evelyn Hampton :: Ranco, Italy | Oct 2014 Essays & Aphorisms by Schopenhauer, Anachromisms by Marco Giovenale + The Coming by Andrej Nikolaidis :: NYC to Ranco, Italy | Oct 2014 Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot :: to/from Brooklyn | Sept 2014 Dyad by Michael Brodsky :: maphatting northern tip of Manhattan | Sept 2014 Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed :: maphatting Harlem | Aug 2014 Youth by J.M Coetzee :: Maine + vermont | Aug 2014 Mount Analogue by René Daumal :: The Great Pond, ME | July 2014 The Waves by Virginia Woolf :: Woods Hole, MA | July 2014 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Anne Dillard + Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie :: Ithaca, NY | July 2014 Representative Works (1938-1985) by Jackson Mac Low :: NYC | May 2014 Straw Dogs by John Gray + The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker :: DC to NYC | May 2014 Rules of the Bone by Russell Banks :: NYC to DC | May 2014 Erasure by Percival Everett :: Chicago to NYC | April 2014 Wearing Dad's Head by Barry Yourgrau :: NYC to Chicago | April 2014 Microscripts by Robert Walser :: Sugarhill, NYC | April 2014 Mira Corpora by Jeff Jackson :: NYC | April 2014 Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute :: Man______ville | Mar 2014 The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie :: Seattle to NYC | Mar 2014 Little Rooms by James Lewelling :: NYC to Seattle | Mar 2014 Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy :: NYC | Feb 2014 The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe :: NYC | Feb 2014 Writing & Difference by Jacques Derrida :: Manhattanville | Jan 2014 The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin :: Tierra del Fuego to NYC | Jan 2014 2013 Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño (in spanish), Ficciones by Jorge Borges (in spanish) & Ghosts by Cesar Aira (in english) :: en route to Chile & Argentina | Dec 2013 How We Became Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles :: NYC | Dec 2013 Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss :: London to NYC | Dec 2013 Llamadas telefónicas (in Spanish) by Roberto Bolaño :: NYC to Mexico, D.F. | Nov 2013 Cardinal Numbers by Hob Broun :: NYC | Nov 2013 Bird Lovers, Backyard by Thalia Field :: Rome to NYC | Nov 2013 Undici Novelle (in Italian) by Luigi Pirandello :: en route to Rome | Nov 2013 Sky Saw by Blake Butler :: Manhattanville | Oct 2013 Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon :: Yupper West Side | Oct 2013 (flashing back) Nietzsche's Kisses by Lance Olsen & What is Life? (re-read) by Erwin Schrödinger :: Haarlem to Harlem | Oct 2013 Haute Surveillance by Johannes Göransson & Salamandrine by Joyelle McSweeney :: en route to Amsterdam | Sept 2013 Reader's Block by David Markson :: on subway to & from bookfairs in Brooklyn & Queens | Sept 2013 Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada (in Spanish) by Gabriel García Márquez :: en route Málaga, Spain to NYC | Sept 2013 Motorman (in Spanish) by David Ohle :: en route NYC to Granada, Spain | Sept 2013 Perfume by Patrick Suskind : spinning in our own sweat in sultry NYC | Sept 2013 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (reread) & Something in My Eye by Michael Jeffrey Lee :: en route to/from Oklahoma | Aug 2013 House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera : Harlem | Aug 2013 Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan (& Spokes by Miranda Mellis & Big American Trip by Christian Peet) :: en route from Oregon back to NYC | Aug 2013 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon :: re-read en route to Northern California | Aug 2013 Book of Ruth by Robert Seydel & Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson :: NYC/Lake Zed (spinning & on subways) | July 2013 Ulysses by James Joyce :: re-read en route Kathmandu to NYC | July 2013 Submergence by J.M. Ledgard :: Lumbini, Nepal | July 2013 Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey :: Kathmandu to Lumbini, Nepal | July 2013 Correction by Thomas Bernhard :: en route NYC to Doha | June 2013 Equivalents by Jessica Baran :: on a train upriver | June 2013 The Event Factory by Renee Gladman :: on the subway to Brooklyn | June 2013 Água Viva by Clarice Lispector :: on the subway to Redhook to get tattooed | May 2013 Do You Hear Them? by Nathalie Sarraute :: Manhattanville | April 2013 Transfer Fat by Aase Berg :: on a stationary bike in NYC | April 2013 King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild :: NYC (Congo/Timor) | Mar 2013 The President in Her Towers by Tom Whalen :: Boston | Mar 2013 On Literature by Umberto Eco & Elephant by Raymond Carver :: en route NYC to Boston | Mar 2013 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy :: New Orleans to NYC | Mar 2013 Errata by Michael Allen Zell :: NYC to New Orleans | Mar 2013 Counterpath: Traveling with Derrida by Catherine Malabou & Jacques Derrida :: NYC (going nowhere) | Feb 2013 Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche :: Manhattanville | Jan 2013 The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs :: Indonesia to NYC | Jan 2013 2012 Paradise by Dante :: Lovina, Bali | Dec 2012 American Purgatorio by by John Haskell :: Ubud, Bali | Dec 2012 Infinite Thought by by Alain Badiou :: Timor-Leste | Dec 2012 The People Who Watched Her Pass by by Scott Bradfield :: Madrid to Singapore | Nov 2012 None of This Is Real by Miranda Mellis :: Madrid | Nov 2012 Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (reread, in Spanish) :: NYC to Barcelona | Nov 2012 The Language Instinct by Steve Pinker :: Rome to NYC | Nov 2012 Rome Tales (anthology) :: Rome | Nov 2012 The Last Days by Raymond Queneau :: Palermo | Nov 2012 The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago :: Rome to Palermo | Nov 2012 That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Gadda :: Rome | Oct 2012 The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick :: Rome | Aug-Oct 2012 The Day of Creation by J.G. Ballard :: Tanzania to Rome | Oct 2012 In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut :: Tanzania | Oct 2012 In the Heart of the Country by J.M Coetzee :: Lalibela, Ethiopia | Oct 2012 The Outsider by Albert Camus (2nd read) :: Bangkok to Rome | Sept 2012 Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner :: Cambodia | Sept 2012 Recollections of the Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet :: Rome to Bangkok | Sept 2012 The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq :: Alps/Dolomites | Sept 2012 untitled: under the auspices by Sturnus Vulgaris :: launch party in Rome | Sept 2012 Cosmopolis by Don Delillo :: NYC to Madrid | Sept 2012 The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz :: NYC | Aug 2012 Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart :: Rome to NYC | Aug 2012 System of Vienna by Gert Jonke :: Rome | Aug 2012 Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson :: Rome & Pompeii | Aug 2012 The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislaviċ :: Sorrento | Aug 2012 Omensetter's Luck by William Gass (2nd read) :: Naples | Aug 2012 WORDATLAS/PAROLATLANTE by Aldo Bandinelli & Luca Arnaudo (as publisher) :: Rome | July 2012 One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin :: Rome | July 2012 Point Omega by Don Delillo :: Chianti Region | July 2012 In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan (2nd read) :: Rome | June 2012 Dracula by Bram Stoker :: Croatia | June 2012 Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco :: Bosnia | June 2012 The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago :: Slovenia into Bosnia | June 2012 Satantango by László Krasznahorkai :: Slovenia | June 2012 Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams :: Rome | May 2012 The Last Novel by David Markson :: London | May 2012 Suicide by Edouard Levé :: London | May 2012 The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus :: Bologna, Italy | May 2012 Leaving Atocha Station by Ben Lerner :: train to Bologna | May 2012 Best European Fiction 2012 published by Dalkey Archive :: Rome | April 2012 Popol Vuh (2nd reading) :: Rome | April 2012 We Make Mud by Peter Markus :: Ponza, Italy | April 2012 The Fixed Stars by Brian Conn :: Ponza island, Italy | April 2012 Ark Codex ±0 :: launched in Trastevere, Rome | April 2012 Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini :: Isola Tiberina/Rome | Mar 2012 Ark Codex ±0 :: launched in NYC | Mar 2012 Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe :: en route Rome to NYC | Mar 2012 Egyptian Book of the Dead :: Rome | Mar 2012 Urien's Voyage by André Gide :: Rome | Feb 2012 Dies: A Sentence by Vanessa Place :: Rome | Feb 2012 The Castle by Franz Kafka:: on train to/from Florence | Feb 2012 Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (as book designer) :: Rome | Feb 2012 Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino :: running in Rome | Feb 2012 translating the decodex to the Codex Seraphinianus :: Rome (Serafini's hood) | Feb 2012 Dreams by Carl Jung :: Rome (with cruise-ship vertigo) | Jan 2012 The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola :: Rome | Jan 2012 Baby Fucker by Urs Allemann :: Rome (with baby on the brain) | Jan 2012 2011 Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk :: Istanbul | Dec 2011 Sister Stop Breathing by Chiara Barzini :: Rome (as editor/designer) | winter 2011 Glyph by Percival Everett, Glyph :: Rome | 2011 There is No Year by Blake Butler :: home alone in Rome for 10 days | Nov 2011 The Canal by Lee Rourke :: Venice | Nov 2011 Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway :: Venice | Nov 2011 On the Way to Language by Heidegger & Aura by Carlos Fuentes (in Spanish) :: Madrid | Oct 2011 Extinction by Thomas Bernhard & Waiting for Godot by Beckett :: Dublin | Oct 2011 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (in Italian) :: Rome | Sept 2011 Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave & The Diary of an Oxygen Thief :: NYC | Sept 2011 Divorcer by Gary Lutz :: Rome (as editor/publisher) | fall 2011 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol :: Sussex, UK | June 2011 The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard :: Sussex | June 2011 Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson :: Rome | June 2011 Pierrot Mon Ami by Raymond Queneau :: Naples | June 2011 A Mortal Affect by Vincent Standley :: Rome (as editor/publisher) | summer 2011 Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog :: home musing on past journeys | June 2011 The Cock Thief by Parselelo Kantai :: Nairobi | May 2011 Jealousy & In the Labyrinth by Alain Robbe-Grillet & No Room in the Ark by Alan Moorehead :: Kitui, Kenya | May 2011 The First Word by Christine Kenneally :: Tigoni, Kenya | May 2011 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee :: Nairobi | May | 2011 Everything and More by David Foster Wallace :: Rome | 2011 I, Claudius by Robert Graves :: Sicily | Apr 2011 The Monkey Puzzle by John Gribbin & Jeremy Cherfas :: Rome | Apr 2011 The Voynich Manuscript by Kennedy & Churchill :: artichoke season in Rome | Apr 2011 The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati :: Rome | Mar 2011 The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney :: Rome | Mar 2011 The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins :: started in Nairobi, 2008 & finished in Rome, Jan 2011 The Process by Brion Gysin :: Rome | Feb 2011 portions of The Upanishads & Tales and Legends from India by Ruskin Bond :: Jaipur, India | Feb 2011 The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman :: Agra, India | Feb 2011 The Plague by Albert Camus & Consilience by E.O. Wilson :: Delhi, India | Feb 2011 A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari :: started in Brooklyn, 2010 & finished in Rome, Jan 2011 The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin :: Southern Italy | Jan 2011 2010 Berg by Ann Quinn :: Rome | Dec 2010 [last book read of the decade] The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible :: started in NYC [2009] & finished in Rome | Dec 2010 When All Our Days Are Numbered ... by Sasha Fletcher :: NY, NY [as tourist] | Dec 2010 I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter :: starling season in Rome | Nov 2010 Rigadoon by Céline :: on the train to Torino | Oct 2010 Iceland by Jim Krusoe :: on the island of Sardinia | Oct 2010 The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco :: Rome [being a tourist] | Sept 2010 If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino :: Umbria | Aug 2010 Out of My Skin by John Haskell :: Rome [when he was visiting] | Aug 2010 The Nature of Things by Lucretius :: S.P.Q.R. | in the heat of our 1st Roman summer The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon :: Rome & Viterbo [1st book read repatriated to Italy] | June 2010 Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. :: on plane from NYC to Dublin | May 2010 Ten Walks/Two Talks by Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch :: last days in DUMBO | May 2010 The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William Burroughs :: the last good book read in America [also included in this post is all the books i brought to Rome] | Apr 2010 Administrative Assemblages by Tom La Farge :: DUMBO | Apr 2010 An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira :: Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua | Mar 2010 Songs of Cifar & the Sweet Sea by Pablo Antonio Cuadra :: Laguna de Apuyo, Nicaragua | Mar 2010 Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea by Sergio Ramirez :: en route to Nicaragua | Mar 2010 This is Not a Novel by David Markson :: DUMBO | Mar 2010 [& then he died a few months later] || Codex Seraphinius by Luigi Serafini :: DUMBO [broke down & purchased it from a bookseller in Rome just weeks before we found out we were moving here] | Feb 2010 +|'me'S-Pace by Christine Wertheim :: DUMBO [still in a long spell of non-travel bunkered in the snow] | Feb 2010 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami :: DUMBO [in between running all the bridges between Manhattan, Queens & Brooklyn] | Jan 2010 Kamby Bolongo Mean River by Robert Lopez :: DUMBO [overlooking E. river] | Jan 2010 Travel Notes: from here to there by Stanley Crawford :: DUMBO, NY [1st book read in our new loft Down Under the Manhattan Bridge] | Jan 2010 2009 The Black Veil by Rick Moody :: NY, NY | Dec 2009 V by Thomas Pynchon :: Rome, Italy | Dec 2009 Hyperdream by Hélène Cixous :: Sleeping loft in West Village | Nov 2009 The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard :: London, England | Oct 2009 Electric Flesh by Claro :: London, England | Oct 2009 Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo :: Tokyo, Japan | Oct 2009 Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami :: en route NYC to Tokyo | Oct 2009 Archive Fever by Jacques Derrida :: Bangkok, Thailand | Oct 2009 Shadowplay by Norman Lock :: en route London to Bangkok | Oct 2009 Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen :: en route NYC to London | Oct 2009 Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari :: driving across the U.S. | Sep 2009 Geneses, Genealogies, Genres & Genius by Jacques Derrida :: NY , NY | Jul 2009 Boons & The Camp by David Ohle (in an editorial capacity) :: last days in Africa & in NYC | Jul 2009 Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson :: upon return to NYC | Jun 2009 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton :: last days in Kenya & flying back | May 2009 Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri :: Timbuktu, Mali | May 2009 The Native Hurricane by Chigozie John Obioma :: Bamako, Mali | Apr 2009 Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard :: Ethiopia | Apr 2009 Wild Hunter in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola :: Tsavo East, Kenya | Apr 2009 Discovering Home by Binyavanga Wainaina :: Nairobi, Kenya | Mar 2009 Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte :: en route Zurich to Nairobi | Mar 2009 Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford :: en route NYC to Zurich | Mar 2009 Remainder by Tom McCarthy :: en route Newark to Albuquerque, NM | Mar 2009 Fog & Car by Eugene Lim :: en route Nairobi to NYC | Mar 2009 Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson : shores of Lake Malawi, Africa | Feb 2009 Africa: A Biography of a Continent by John Reader :: Tanzania & Malawi | Jan 2009 Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh :: Zanzibar, Tanzania | Jan 2009 2008 The Body Artist by Don Delillo :: Krabi, Thailand | Dec 2008 Super Cell Anemia by Duncan Barlow :: Chiang Mai, Thailand | Dec 2008 Palm of the Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata :: Thailand | Dec 2008 The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle :: en route Nairobi to Bangkok | Dec 2008 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace :: Nairobi | 2008 [reading it when he died] Kikuyu Folktales : Lake Baringo, Kenya | Dec 2008 The Wizard and the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o :: Kisumu, Kenya | Nov 2008 The Blue City by Sean Thomas Dougherty :: Rome, Italy | Nov 2008 Bob, or Man on a Boat by Peter Markus :: Turin to Rome, Italy | Nov 2008 Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille :: Nairobi to Cairo | Nov 2008 Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel :: En route Nairobi to NYC | Oct 2008 Waste by Eugene Marten :: En route Nairobi to NYC | Oct 2008 What is the What by Dave Eggers :: Nairobi, Kenya | Sep 2008 Creamy Bullets by Kevin Sampsell :: Mombasa, Kenya | Sep 2008 Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth :: Mombasa, Kenya | Sep 2008 Kwani? 04 :: Nairobi, Kenya | Aug 2008 Americana by Don Delillo :: en Route US to Nairobi, Kenya | Aug 2008 Minor Robberies by Deb Olin Unferth :: UWS, NYC | Mar 2008 Bear Stories by J'Lyn Chapman (in an editorial capacity) :: UWS, NYC | Feb 2008 Shorts are Wrong by Mike Topp :: on the NYC subway | Jan 2008 The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell :: Jury Duty, NY | Jan 2008 2007 Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri :: Nairobi, Kenya | Nov 2007 Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o :: Garissa, Kenya | Nov 2007 Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa :: Uganda | Nov 2007 The Beautyful Ones are not Born Yet by Ayi Kwei Armah :: Ethiopia | Nov 2007 Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola :: NYC to Amsterdam | Nov 2007 Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz :: Upper West Side, NY | Aug 2007 Attempts at a Life by Danielle Dutton :: East Village, NY | Feb 2007 + books mentioned in our 2007 journal but not blogged about on 5cense: The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson, Neck Deep by Ander Monson, The Giant's Fence by Michael Jacobson , Two Plays for Radio by Norman Lock, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, There Was One & It Was Two by Ric Royer, The Age of Sinatra by David Ohle, The Famished Road by Ben Okri, The Meat and Spirit Plan by Selah Saterstom, The Exquisite by Laird Hunt + numerous literary magazines 2006 Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami :: Fez, Morocco | Dec 2006 Points in Time by Paul Bowles :: en route NYC to Morocco | Dec 2006 The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by Dennis DiClaudio :: Southern Spain | Nov 2006 Dubliners by James Joyce [2nd reading] :: Dublin, Ireland | Mar 2006 Beneath the Shadow of Perpetual Defeat by Faruk Ulay :: LES, NY | Jan 2006 2005 The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders ::on a train from Montreal to NYC | Dec 2005 Motorman by David Ohle :: Montreal, Canada | Dec 2005 Tabloid City by Thomas Wooten :: Delaware & Atlantic City, NJ | Oct 2005 Other Electricities by Ander Monsoon :: NYC (wrote review for NY Press) | Sept 2005 Arbitrary Tales by Daniel Borzutzky:: NYC (wrote review for NY Press) | Sept 2005 Trilce by Cesar Vallejo:: en route Oaxaca, Mexico to NYC | Jul 2005 Please Kill Me : The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain :: Mazunte, Mexico | Jul 2005 The Way the Family Got Away by Michael Kimball :: Palenque, Mexico | Jul 2005 Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells :: Guatemala | Jul 2005 Beautiful Blemish by Kevin Sampsell :: Hell's Kitchen, NY | Apr 2005 The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom :: Miami, FL | Mar 2005 A History of the Imagination by Norman Lock :: West Village, NY | Jan 2005 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders : West Village | Jan 2005 2004 My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter :: Tucson [revisited] | Nov 2004 I Looked Alive by Gary Lutz :: Costa Rica | Aug 2004 The Popol Vuh :: Puerto Rico | Jul 2004 before we kept this blog we kept a journal all the way back into the 80s so we're able to go back to see what we read & where & when—in theory anyway—it's not always easy finding the bookish commentary embedded within the text & some of these are off memory—which books stick out in my mind from a certain time or place in my life or places that a book makes us think of—the significant standouts anyway. Before 2004 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane by Barry Yourgrau, Selected Writings by Guillaume Apollinaire, Excitability by Diane Williams, Ice at the Bottom of the World by Marc Richards, Popol Vuh + Americana by Don Delillo : NYC (Hell's Kitchen) | January—June 2004 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace, White Noise by Don Delillo, All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster + The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago : NYC/LA | July—December 2003 Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille, Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz, The Father Costume by Ben Marcus : NYC, LA, Omaha + New Mexico | January—June 2003 Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges :: Argentina | Dec 2002. i had read most of Borges stuff before this, but i got the selected Borges & read them during this trip. 1001 Arabian Nights by :: En route to Argentina | Dec 2002. Day of the Locust by Nathanael West : Jamaica | Dec 2002 Naked by David Sedaris, Notes from the Underground by Eric Bogosian, The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, Blindness by Jose Saramago, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee by James Tate : NYC, California + Omaha | July—Oct 2002 The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose :: Keystone, CO | Jan 2002 Excitability by Diane Williams :: on a plane to Italy | Nov 2001 The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, The Best Short Stories of Antonn Chekov, House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris :: Upper East Side, NY | Oct—Dec 2001 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets : NYC/Philly | July–Sept 2001 The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and other stories by William Saroyan, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, State and Main by David Mamet + Garden State by Rick Moody : NYC, Spain, CA | April–June 2001 The New York trilogy by Paul Auster + The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath : NYC | Jan—Mar 2001 Smoke + Blue in the Face (screenplays) by Paul Auster : NYC | Nov 2000 Let the Dog Drive by David Bowman, Syrup by Max Barry, Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, Date With Satan by Stacey Richter : NY, NY | July—Sept 2000 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster :: Upper East Side, NY | June 2000. one of the first things i read when we moved to New York. it meant more living near the places he was talking about, & my first memories of NYC are intertwined with this book. same goes for Smoke & Blue in the Face [in regards to Brooklyn], both of which i read [the screenplays] or saw around this time. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara :: moving to NYC | May 2000 The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins + For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway:: Arizona/Vegas/New Mexico | Oct—Dec 1999 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien :: Patzcuaro, Mexico | summer of 1999. great book to read traveling anywhere. Surfing the Himalayas by Frederick Lenz :: Arizona | June 1999 Circumnavigation by Steve Lattimore :: Tucson, AZ | February 1999 Tibetan Book of the Dead + Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller : Las Vegas + California | Winter 1998 The Information by Martin Amis : Tucson, AZ | Summer 1998 Castle to Castle by Céline :: Portsmouht, NH | Spring 1998 Tetherballs of Bouganville (+ others) by Mark Leyner, The Information by Martin Amis + Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey : NH, NYC + Vermont | Winter 1998 Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky + Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau : Portsmouth, NH | Winter 1997 The Shipping News by Annie E. Proulx :: Portsmouth, NH | September of 1997. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer :: Portsmouth, NH | Aug 1997 The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (+ Midnight in the Garden... + Sound and The Fury) :: Savannah, GA | June 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt :: Savannah, GA | May 1997 The Anatomy Lesson by John D Morley :: on the way from our brother's memorial | April 1997 Canto General by Pablo Neruda :: doing survey jobs in Mexico near the border | Apr 1997 Light in August by William Faulkner :: doing survey jobs in Mexico near the border | March 1997 In the Garden of North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolfe + Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott :: Arizona | January 1997 The Secret Life of Houses by Scott Bradfield, The Unvanquished by William Faulkner, Wildlife by Richard Ford, The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway, Caverns by Ken Kesey, Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard, The Ancient Child by M Scott Momaday, Writing the Southwest : Nevada/Arizona/Idaho/Baja Mexico | Oct–Dec 1996 Rig Vedas, The Violent Land by Jorge Amado, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy + This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff : Nevada/Arizona/California/Mexico/New Mexico/Texas | Aug-Sept 1996 The Shipping News by Annie Proulx + Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov : Arizona/Nevada/ Mexico | May–July 1996 Scott's Last Expedition: the journal of Sir Robert Falcon Scott + Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky :: Arctic Circle | Apr 1996. read this while living in a tent on a frozen lake that was fueled by diesel fuel. i was doing a geophysical survey job looking for diamonds. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, Plexus by Henry Miller, Journey to the End of the Night by Celine:: SW Arizona, Jan-Mar 1996. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Nexus by Henry Miller, High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver : Arizona/California/Nevada | Sept-Dec 1995 The Iliad, The Sound and The Fury, Plexus by Henry Miller, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, Something to Remember Me By by Saul Bellow :: Nevada/Arizona/California/ New Mexico | June-Aug 1995 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner :: Arizona | April 1995. i also remember rereading a lot of Elizabeth Bishop around this time. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford :: doing surveying jobs around Arizona, New Mexico, Texas + California | April–May 1995. The Illiad by Homer, Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller + Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac :: Axixic, Mexico | Feb 1995 Fires by Ramond Carver :: California | Jan 1995 Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis, Diamond as Big as the Ritz + Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sutree by Cormac McCarthy's, D.H.Lawrence short stories, The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler :: Côte d'Azur, France, Nov-Dec, 1994 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner:: Nice, France | Dec 1994. read this between a movie set & a dingy hotel room. when i finished it, i read it again. Lakota Myths and Dakota Texts (+ Ulysses) :: Black Hills, South Dakota | Sept 1994 Ulysses by James Joyce :: Hill City, South Dakota | August 1994. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown :: Black Hills, SD | July 1994 Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann : Mexico (climbing a volcano) | Jan 1994 Backcountry Rockclimbing in Southern Arizona by Bob Kerry :: Southern AZ | Fall of 1993 (climbing w/ the author) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy, Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt : Travelling western U.S. | Aug 1993 Sexus by Henry Miller : Arizona | July 1993 The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad : Arizona | June 1993 The Women are Singing by Luci Tapahonso : Tucson, AZ | Feb 1993 God and the New Physics by Paul Davies + Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston : Arizona | Jan 1993 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis : en route to San Francisco, CA | Dec 1992 A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf : Tucson | Nov-Dec 1992 My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir : Yosemite | August 1992 Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko : Tucson/SW | June-July 1992 Mulata by Miguel Asturias : Tucson | May/June 1992 The Concepts of Space and Time (edited) by Milič Čapek : Tucson | April 1992 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, The Vedas and Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut : Arizona + California | Nov-Dec 1991 The Heights of Machu Picchu by Pablo Neruda :: Peru | June 1991. can't think of a better & more appropriate book to read on the way to Machu Picchu. Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises) by Ernest Hemingway :: Cuzco, Peru | June 1991. i remember reading this & projecting the characters in the book onto the 3 or 4 travel companions & i had met along the way. Synchronicity : Through the Eyes of Science, Myth and the Trickster by Alan Combs, Mark Holland : Bolivia 1991 QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynmann :: Bolivia, June 1991. after getting my degree in math i read this & it inspired me to go back & get my master's in physics. House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende :: traveling through Chile | June 1991. The Quantum Self by Danah Zohar :: Travelling through Argentina + Chile | May 1991. Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell :: Argentina | May 1991. this book is applicable anywhere, anytime. Generation X by Douglas Coupland :: Pasadena, CA | 1991. read this visiting my brother & traveling east of LA out into the desert where a lot of the book takes place. Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer, Illusions by R. Bach, A Brief History of Time by S. Hawkings, Torrents of Spring + Old Man and The Sea by E. Hemingway, Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams :: Singapore > Malaysia > Hawaii > California | Jan—Feb 1991 The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield :: Penang, Malaysia | Jan 1991. i also remember reading Bonfire of the Vanities in one sitting here. i had been traveling for a while & had just stopped for a few days to read books & eat good food. Homer's Odyssey :: Indonesia | Dec 1990. read this over a 2 or 3-day boat ride from Java to Jakarta. The Island of Bali by Miguel Covarrubias :: Bali, Indonesia | Dec 1990. i was really into Balinese music & culture [this was the main purpose/destination of this long trip], & this is the definitive book, written by a Mexican no less. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain :: Flores, Indonesia | Dec 1990. i was never made to read this in school so it was a pleasure reading this on my own time. not sure why I read this here, most likely i picked it up from another traveler. Moby Dick by Herman Melville :: Australia | Nov 1990 i probably should have read this when i was out in the South Pacific a few months before, but actually hitch-hiking through Australia seemed like an appropriate enough place to read this. the whale for me was Uluru. Mysteries of the Dreaming: the Spiritual Lives of Australian Aborigines by James Cowan :: Australia | Nov 1990 On the Road by Jack Kerouac + Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe:: New Zealand, Oct 1990. read this riding a bike through the north island & working on farmstays. Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas :: New Zealand | Oct 1990 Unnatural Selection by Daniel Evan Weiss :: New Zealand | Nov 1990 South Sea Stories by Somerset Maugham, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Dean Frisbie, Herman Melville and others :: Cook Islands | Aug-Sept 1990 Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller :: Moorea, Tahiti | Aug 1990. read pretty much everything by Miller in these years. Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung :: Tahiti | Jul 1990. after graduating i took off on a trip & this was my first stop & this was the first book i read. To a God Uknown by John Steinbeck, Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut + Silence by John Cage :: Santa Cruz, CA | Spring 1990 On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Thompson, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins & Flatland by Edwin Abbott :: Santa Cruz, CA | 1989. these three books that i read around this time made me want to be a scientist. Still Life with a Woodpecker by Tom Robbins :: Santa Cruz, CA | 1989. read pretty much all of Tom Robbins books around this time. Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver :: driving through Oregon | circa late 80s. i had read most everything by Carver at this point, but was rereading this on a roadtrip i took with my brother back to the house where we grew up Frankenstein by Mary Shelley :: Isla Mujeres, Mexico, Sept 1988. i distinctly remember borrowing & reading this while riding out Hurricane Gilbert. Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan :: San Francisco, CA | 1988. i specifically remember reading this book in the park right outside of City Hall in San Francisco, & walking around to some of the sites he was talking about in the book. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola :: L.A., CA | 1987. i was in LA at some nightclub that playing music from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by David Byrne & Brian Eno. i liked the album so much that the next day i had to see what the book that inspired the music was like. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand :: Palo Alto, CA | 1987. i remember reading the fountainhead laying fully clothed in the California winter in a lawn chair by a drained pool. Silence by John Cage :: Palo Alto, CA | 1986. i read or referred to this when i was into making experimental music. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez :: read this in one sitting on a greyhound bus from S.F. to L.A. | 1985. Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole :: Mountain View, CA | 1985. when i was reading this in public, i couldn't help myself from laughing out loud. The Stranger by Albert Camus :: Mountain View, CA | 1984. i read this because of The Cure song of the same name & i was obsessed with The Cure at the time. The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck :: Monterrey, CA | 1983. of course i read most everything Steinbeck wrote while living in Monterrey for this year, but this was the most memorable. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger :: i remember reading this for the first time in Ajijic, Mexico around 1982. when i finished i flipped to the beginning & read it again. & i think i read it a third time later when i was in high school in the states [& a 4th time more recently]. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams :: Ajijic, Mexico | circa 1981. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig :: Ajijic, Mexico circa 1980. i'm also embarrassed to admit that i read a few Carlos Castenada books that my mom had laying around her house during this time living in Mexico, as well as the Tao of Physics. Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss :: Portland, OR | circa 1974. i remember reading all the Dr. Seuss books over & over, but this was my favorite one. Grimm's Fairy Tales :: Mt. Hood, OR | circa 1973. i still remember how this book smelled, probably my first association with a book as being a special object.
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