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

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 + Archive Fever by Emiliano Carrero (in an editorial capacity) : 455 CPW | Feb 2024

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 you from afar by moyna pam dick, Dear Professor, Do You Live in a Vacuum by Nin Andrews + With One's Own Eyes by Sherwood Anderson : East 114-116 streets | Aug 2023

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 + Run Off Sugar Crystal Lake by Logan Berry : DC | April 2022 (7 days sober)

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 SpeciesBerg by Charles Darwin :: Southern Italy | Jan 2011

2010

BergBerg by Ann Quinn :: Rome | Dec 2010 [last book read of the decade]

The Dead Sea Scrolls BibleDead Sea Scrolls :: 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

read on location

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

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie : on a bus to Woodstock, NY | Sep 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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