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Monday, June 4, 2012
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Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War- Tony Horwitz
A Sultan in Palermo - Tariq Ali
Hitch-22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens
Negropedia- Patrice Evans
Dead Funny: Humor in Nazi Germany - Rudolph Herzog
Exile on Main Street - Robert Greenfield
Among the Truthers - A Journey Among America's Growing Conspiracist Underworld - Jonathan Kay
Paradise Lost - John Milton
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Thinking the Unthinkable - John Brockman
Notes from the Edge Times - Daniel Pinchbeck
Fringe-ology: How I Can't Explain Away the Unexplainable- Steve Volk
Un Juif pour l'exemple (translated as A Jew Must Die )- Jacques Cheesex
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Pale King - David Foster Wallce
David Bowie: Starman bio - Paul Trynka
Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat - Andrez Bergen
The Future of Nostalgia -Svetlana Boym
Living in the End Times - Slavoj ZIzek
FIrst as Tragedy Next as Farce - Slavoj Zizek
How to Survive a Robot Uprising - Daniel Wilson
Where is My Jet Pack? -Daniel Wilson
Day of the Oprichniks - Vladimir Sorokin
Ice Trilogy - Vladimir Sorokin
First Civilizations
Oscar Wilde -Andre Maurois
The Beats - Harvey Pekar, et al
SDS - Harvey Pekar, et al
The Unfinished Animal - Theodore Roszak
Friends of Eddy Coyle
Brooklands -Emily Barton
Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahme-Smith - Entertaining and historical
Dictionary of the Khazars - Pavic
Sloth-Gilbert Hernandez
War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
Charles Addams: An Evilution
Life in Ancient Greece
Time - Eva Hoffmann
Violence - S. Zizek
Luba - a graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez
Life in Ancient Egypt
Great Apes - Will Self - riveting and disturbing
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum - Heinrich Boll - could not put it down
Yellow Back Radio Brokedown - Ishmael Reed (author deserving of new wide readership)
Living in Ancient Mesopotomia
Landscape in Concrete - Jakov Lind - surreal
'There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby'-Ludmilla Petrushevskaya - creepy stories - translation feels literarily "thin"
Mythologies - William Butler Yeats (re-read again & again)
How German Is It ? - Walter Abish
The Book of Genesis - illustrated by R. Crumb - visionary
"Flags" - an illustrated encyclopedia - wish I could remember all of these. Flag culture
Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
Hitler's Empire - Mark Mazower
Nazi Culture - various authors
Master Plan: Himmler 's Scholars and the Holocaust - Heather Pringle
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
Living in Ancient Rome
Traveling with Herodotus -R. Kapuszynsky
Oblivion - David Foster Wallace - Some of his greatest work
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - still wrestling with this great book
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill - staggeringly great read
Renegade - The Obama Campaign - Richard Wolffe
Mount Analogue - Rene Daumal
John Brown
Anathem - Neal Stephenson - love Stephenson but tough slogging first few chapters
7 Deadly Sins
ALEX COX - Alex Cox
FIASCO by Thomas Ricks
I, Fellini - Charlotte Chandler & Federico Fellini
Best of 20th century alternative history fiction
Judah P. Benjamin - Eli Evans - Confederacy's Secretary of State & source of the W.C. Field's exclamation
Moscow 2042 - Vladimir Voinovich - Pre-1989 curiosity & entertaining sci fi read; love his portrayal of Solzhenitsyn-like character
Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano - Mafia without the It-Am sugar coating. Brutal & disturbing
The Sack of Rome - Celebrity+Media+Money=Silvio Berlusconi - Alexander Stille
Reporting - David Remnick - terrific journalism
Fassbinder
Indignation - Philip Roth
Rome
Let's Go Italy! 2008
Italian Phrases for Dummies
How to Pack
Violence - Slavoj Zizek
Dali: Painting & Film
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin
The Good Rat - Jimmy Breslin
Spook Country - William Gibson
A Blue Hand - The Beats in India - Deborah Baker
The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menard
Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
Physics of the Impossible - Dr. Michio Kaku
Managing the Unexpected - Weick & Sutcliffe
Wait Til The Midnight Hour - Writings on Black Power
Yellow Back Radio Brokedown - Ishmael Reed
Burning Down the Masters' House - Jayson Blair
Howl - Allen Ginsberg
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
The Palace Thief - Ethan Canin
John Adams - David McCullough
The Wooden Sea - Jonathan Carroll
American Gangster - Mark Jacobson
Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
Gawker Guide to Becoming King of All Media
Jews and Power - Ruth Wisse
Youth Without Youth - Mircea Eliade
A Team of Rivals - Doris Goodwin
Ghost Hunters -William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death - Deborah Blum
Dream -Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy - Stephen Duncombe
Love & Theft - Eric Lott
Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
Studio A - The Bob Dylan Reader
Current Listening
Alexi Murdoch Wait
Wilco Summer Teeth
Wilco The Album
Carmina Burana - Ray Manzarek (& Michael Riesmann)
Polyrock - Polyrock
96 Tears - Garland Jeffries
Ghost of a Chance Garland Jeffries
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Mustang Sally Buddy Guy
John Lee Hooker
Black and White Years
Together Through Life - B. Dylan
100 Days 100 Nites - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
DYLAN: 3 disc Greatest...
Glassworks - Philip Glass
Wild Palms - Soundtrack -Ryuichi Sakamoto
Dinah Washington - Best of..
Commander Cody& His Lost Planet Airmen Live at Armadillo