7 July 2008
* = reread
Actively:
Off and on:
Thomas Disch, Getting Into Death and Other Stories
Dominick Di Meo, The Man in the Moon: Paintings, Drawings & Reliefs 1947–1974
Ed Ruscha, They Called Her Styrene
July
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Peter Blake, The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright
June
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
Daniel Clowes, Ice Haven
James McCourt, Mawrdew Czgowchwz
May
Dennis Cooper & Nayland Blake, Jerk
*Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark
*Gary Indiana, Rent Boy
*Gary Indiana, Gone Tomorrow
Richard P. Gabriel, Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
April
March
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month
Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code
Peter Bagge, Hey, Buddy! A Hate Collection
George Lewis, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music
*Walker Evans, American Photographs
Paul Rudolph, Architectural Drawings
Stephen Shore, Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Val Williams, Martin Parr
Bert Archer, The End of Gay and the Death of Heterosexuality
February
January
(Chris Villars, ed.), Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964–1987
*Samuel R. Delany, The Mad Man
Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square
Emmett Williams, Schemes & Variations
Ezra Stoller, The Yale Art and Architecture Building (Paul Rudolph)
Charles Burns, Black Hole
Richard Toop, György Ligeti
Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Richard Steinitz, György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination
Daniel A.I.U. Higgs, Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Christopher Domin & Joseph King, Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses
Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: Another Day
Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
Joe Matt, Spent
December
*J.G. Ballard, Concrete Island
Dennis Cooper, God Jr.
Aaron Cometbus, I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit
Gary Indiana, Depraved Indifference
Peter Brötzmann, Paintings & Objects
November
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1965 to 1966
Roberto de Alba, Paul Rudolph: The Late Work
Tony Monk, The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Denis Johnson, Angels
Bruce Benderson, Sex and Isolation and Other Essays
October
Nick Waplington, Truth or Consequences
The Great LIFE Photographers
Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Tokyo: A Certain Style
Edmund White, Hotel de Dream
September
James Herndon, Notes from a Schoolteacher
Ken Richardson, Jasen Strickler, Andrew M.K. Warren, The Wheels Project
Dennis Cooper, All Ears: Cultural Criticism, Essays and Obituaries
Laura Kipnis, The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability
Ken Probst, Pornegrafik
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1963 to 1964
Edward McPherson, The Backwash Squeeze & Other Improbable Feats
(Jop van Bennekom & Gert Jonkers, eds.), Butt Book
*Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1961 to 1962
Ivan Brunetti, Misery Loves Comedy
August
Jon Ronson, Them: Adventures with Extremists
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop
*James Herndon, How to Survive in Your Native Land
Jason Bitner, Found Polaroids
Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
July
Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You
Terry Falke, Observations in an Occupied Wilderness
Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
*James Herndon, The Way It Spozed to Be
Jonathan Kozol, Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools
June
Edmund White, Caracole
May
(Clinton Heylin, ed.), All Yesterday’s Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print, 1966–1971
Edmund White, Chaos: A Novella and Stories
Lawrence Weschler, Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
April
John McPhee, The Founding Fish
Martin Parr, Langweilige Postkarten
Samuel R. Delany, Dark Reflections
Reginald Smith Brindle, The New Music: The Avant-Garde Since 1945 (2nd ed.)
Michael Bronski, Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
Gary Indiana, Scar Tissue
Greg Kot, Wilco: Learning How to Die
March
Wilco, The Wilco Book
Jeff Brouws, Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts
Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
Robert Silverberg, The Second Trip
(V. Vale, ed.), J.G. Ballard: Conversations
John McPhee, Coming into the Country
February
Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
January
Guy Delisle, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1959 to 1960
Daniel Pinkwater, The Education of Robert Nifkin
December
Walter Hogan, The Agony and the Eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater’s Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature
Gary Indiana, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story
Graham Lock, ed., Mixtery: A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton
November
Bruce Benderson, The Romanian
Denis Johnson, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man
Steve Wozniak, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
October
Judith Levine, Not Buying It
*William S. Burroughs, Queer
Gary Indiana, Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt
*Daniel Pinkwater, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
September
Gary Indiana, Resentment: A Comedy
Stewart Home, Cranked Up Real High: Genre Theory & Punk Rock
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958
*William S. Burroughs, Junky
Gary Indiana, Horse Crazy
Dennis Cooper, Frisk
Martin Parr, Boring Postcards USA
August
Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
Daniel Sinker, ed., We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
Martin Parr, Boring Postcards
Philip Bergen, Old Boston in Early Photographs, 1850–1918
James Lang, Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
Joe Sacco, Notes from a Defeatist
*Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
July
Guy Delisle, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker
Theodore Sturgeon, The Cosmic Rape
June
Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
John McPhee, Uncommon Carriers
Lord Berners, First Childhood
Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
Tom Johnson, The Voice of New Music
May
Stanislaw Lem, Fiasco
Karl Sabbagh, Skyscraper: The Making of a Building
April
Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Then & Now: Boston’s South End
Roland Barthes, Incidents
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Kevin Bentley, Wild Animals I Have Known: Polk Street Diaries and After
Andy Merrifield, Guy Debord
Edmund White, My Lives: An Autobiography
Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984
Gary Indiana: Let It Bleed: Essays 1985–1995
Cookie Mueller, Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller
David Keenan, England’s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
Walter Muir Whitehill & Lawrence W. Kennedy, Boston: A Topographical History
Christopher Priest, The Quiet Woman
Gary Indiana, Gone Tomorrow
March
*Roger Zelazny, Doorways in the Sand
February
Samuel R. Delany, About Writing
David Leavitt, The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
January
*Samuel R. Delany, Hogg
Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
December
Paul Stump, Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music
Ira Glass, Tim Samuelson & Chris Ware, Lost Buildings
Gary Indiana, Do Everything in the Dark
November
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Joe Matt, Fair Weather
Bern Porter, Wuondruskh
Angelo, Prisoners’ Inventions
Lisa Carver, Drugs Are Nice
Kevin Bentley, Let’s Shut Out the World
Lisa Carver, The Lisa Diaries
October
Edmund White, Arts and Letters
September
August
Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Dave Roche, On Subbing: The First Four Years
Richard Meltzer, Autumn Rhythm
Steven Blush, American Hardcore: A Tribal History
John Pham, Epoxy 3
Michel Chion, Eyes Wide Shut
Lester Bangs, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
July
Aaron Cometbus, Mixed Reviews
Christopher Priest, Real-Time World
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956
Christopher Priest, The Dream Archipelago
Stanislaw Lem, Imaginary Magnitude
(Chris Oliveros, ed.), Drawn and Quarterly Vol. 3
Ben Katchor, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
Stewart Home, No Pity
Jim DeRogatis, Let It Blurt: The Life & Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
June
Seth, Vernacular Drawings
Susan Sontag, On Photography
(Jonathan Rosenbaum & Adrian Martin, eds.), Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia
Samuel R. Delany, Phallos
May
Michel Houellebecq, Platform
(John Szarkowski, ed.), Winogrand: Figments from the Real World
April
Jonathan Stockton, Chicago’s Best Dive Bars
Heinz Heger, The Men with the Pink Triangle
Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
Michael Tanner, Wagner
(Debra Bricker Balken, ed.), Philip Guston’s Poor Richard
William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason
Lawrence Weschler, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Marianne Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
March
Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
*Thomas Disch, On Wings of Song
Marc Cooper, The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors
February
Hildegard Schmidt & Wolf Kampmann, Can Box: Book
Phoebe Gloeckner, A Child’s Life and Other Stories
Joe Sacco, Palestine
January
Lawrence Weschler, A Wanderer in the Perfect City
Alec Foege, Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Story
Kevin Bentley, Afterwords: Real Sex from Gay Men’s Diaries
Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
December
Emmett Williams, A Valentine for Noël
Chris Ware, The Acme Novelty Date Book, Vol. 1
Dolores Hayden, A Field Guide to Sprawl
Ben Watson, Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Patrick Moore, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Vincent LoBrutto, Stanley Kubrick
John Byrum & Crag Hill, eds., CORE: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry
David Ehrenstein, Film: The Front Line: 1984
James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: the Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape
Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1953 to 1954
Aaron Cometbus, Chicago Stories
November
Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Polemic
Stanislaw Lem, One Human Minute
Daniel Pinkwater, The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror
Gene Wolfe, The Devil in a Forest
Peter Sotos, Index
Harvey Pekar, The New American Splendor Anthology
October
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
(Tony Herrington, ed.), Invisible Jukebox
Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
September
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons
Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage
David Wojnarowicz, The Waterfront Journals
Archer Prewitt, Sof’ Boy #1,2
Ben Snakepit, The Snakepit Book
Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
Dylan Horrocks, Atlas #1
Seth, Clyde Fans: Book One
August
Jeffrey Brown, Be a Man
Chester Brown, I Never Liked You
Chester Brown, The Playboy
John McPhee, The Crofter and the Laird
Adrian Martin, Once Upon a Time in America
Al Burian, Burn Collector
Seth, It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken
Joe Matt, Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt
Seth, Palookaville #1
Joe Matt, Peepshow (#3,13)
John McPhee, Pieces of the Frame
Thomas Frank, What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Alfred Bester, The Dark Side of the Earth
Daniel Clowes, Eightball #23
Michael Carlson, The Pocket Essential Sergio Leone
July
Andy Mackay, Electronic Music
Daniel Harris, A Memoir of No One in Particular
Aaron Cometbus, Lanky
Joe Matt, Peepshow (#1,2,4,5,6,11,12)
Daniel Clowes, Caricature
(Ludvig Hertzberg, ed.), Jim Jarmusch: Interviews
John Szwed, So What: the Life of Miles Davis
June
David Ehrenstein, Open Secret: Gay Hollywood 1928-2000
Aaron Cometbus, Double Duce
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Mat Brinkman, Teratoid Heights
Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952
(Chris Ware, ed.), McSweeney’s 13
Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: a Cometbus Omnibus
May
David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Michael Light, 100 Suns
Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar
Hervé Guibert, The Compassion Protocol
James Kochalka, Monkey vs. Robot and the Crystal of Power
Hervé Guibert, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Alfred Bester, Starburst
Kate Millett, The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue
April
Peter Niklas Wilson, Ornette Coleman: His Life and Music
(Larry McCaffery, ed.), Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
Edward Stein, The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation
Stewart Home, Slow Death
Stephen Burn, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Stéphanie Busuttil, White
March
Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
February
Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England
Jonathan Spence, Mao Zedong
Miles Barth, Weegee’s World
Samors/Doyle/Lewin/Williams, Chicago’s Far North Side: an Illustrated History of Rogers Park and West Ridge
Richard Appignanesi & Oscar Zarate, Lenin for Beginners
Quentin Crisp, How to Have a Life-Style
Daniel Pinkwater, Borgel
Blair Kamin, Why Architecture Matters: Lessons From Chicago
Daniel Pinkwater, The Worms of Kukumlima
Esther Wanning, Culture Shock! USA
Keith Fleming, Original Youth: The Real Story of Edmund White’s Boyhood
Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
Richard Dyer, The Culture of Queers
January
Thomas Waugh, Out/Lines
Samuel Barber, Edmund White: The Burning World
Gina Kolata, Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead
Keith Fleming, The Boy With a Thorn in His Side
(Richard Bales, ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Proust
(the year of reading Proust)
December
Marcel Proust, Time Regained
(F. Valentine Hooven, III, ed.), Beefcake
(Peter Finch, ed.), Typewriter Poems
various, Dancers on a Plane: Cage/Cunningham/Johns
John Pawson, Minimum
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
David Wojnarowicz, Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
(Richard Kostelanetz, ed.), Writings on Glass
Thomas Hornemann, Brillo-Box-Pulp
Tom Phillips, The Heart of a Humument
Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Vienna: A Guide to Recent Architecture
November
Jasper Morrison, A World Without Words
Marcel Proust, The Fugitive
Greil Marcus, Ranters & Crowd Pleasers
Valerie Wilmer, Jazz People
October
Peter Sotos, Tick
Marcel Proust, The Captive
September
Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk
Weegee, Naked City
Nan Goldin, The Other Side
Deborah Stratman, Power/Exchange
Jesse Reklaw, Applicant
Al Burian, Everything is Meaning Less
August
Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
July
June
Paul Shambroom, Face to Face With the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War
May
Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen
Catherine Millet, The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library #15
F.A. Nettelbeck, Hands on a Mirror
April
Peter Brötzmann, The Inexplicable Flyswatter: Works on Paper 1959–1964
March
Samuel R. Delany & Howard V. Chaykin, Empire
Stephen Lapthisophon, Hotel Terminus
Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove
February
January
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling
December
Michael Perkins, Evil Companions
Edmund White, Marcel Proust
Matt Segur, Soft Power
Thomas Bernhard, Gathering Evidence
Daniel Harris, Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic
November
Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors
Gary Indiana, Rent Boy
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
October
Edmund White, Skinned Alive
(Gene D. Phillips, ed.), Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
Edmund White & Hubert Sorin, Our Paris
Brian Morton, The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Contemporary Music
Robert Rusch, JazzTalk
Daniel Harris, The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
Herbert Kohl, I Won’t Learn From You
September
(various), Expo 2000
Ann Powers, Weird Like Us
Christopher Priest, The Space Machine
Daniel Clowes, 20th Century Eightball
Ivan Brunetti, Haw!
Ivan Brunetti, 32 Drunks
Adrian Tomine, Optic Nerve #8
H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Renaud Camus, Tricks
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
John McPhee, The Pine Barrens
John McPhee, The Headmaster
Edmund White, The Flaneur
August
James Kochalka, The Sketchbook Diaries, Vol. 2
Brian Ralph, Climbing Out
Edmund White, Nocturnes For the King of Naples
Thomas Bernhard, The Voice Imitator
July
Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles
Edmund White, The Married Man
June
(Mark Estrin, ed.), Orson Welles: Interviews
Alan Licht, An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn
Bern Porter, The Wastemaker: 1926-1961
Richard Kostelanetz, The End of Intelligent Writing
Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me