- Chris Ware: Acme Novelty Library #19
- Benson Bobrick: Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure
- Mike Carey, Louise Carey, Aaron Alexovich: Confessions of a Blabbermouth
- Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
- Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
- Adam Haslett: You Are Not a Stranger Here
- Michel Houellebecq: The Elementary Particles
Category: Reading
currently reading/just read:
- Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success
- Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
- Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
- Christopher Potter: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
- Bill Willingham, Lan Medina: Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile
- Alessandro Baricco: Silk
Read and/or Reading
- Amity Gaige: The Folded World. I fell completely, totally, 100% in love with this, and read almost all of it in a bathtub.
- Jonathon Keats: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six
- Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There’d Be Cake
the latest pile
- G. Xavier Robillard: Captain Freedom: A Superhero’s Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves
- Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
- Sophie Dahl: Playing with the Grown-ups
- Michael Chabon: Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
unemployment = books + bath
- Dara Horn: The World to Come
- Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic
- Nancy Horan: Loving Frank
can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait
- Andrew Doughty: Hawaii – The Big Island Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook
- Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Nancy Horan: Loving Frank
- Nicole Krauss: Man Walks Into a Room
- Dara Horn: The World to Come
- Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic
- Michael Guista: Brain Work
- Elizabeth Berg: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation
Lately, on the Nightstand…
- Simon Singh: The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. So, watch out. I will crack your ATM code.
- Caprice Crane: Forget About It. My name’s in this!
- Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell: Shakespeare Wrote for Money
- Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
holiday reading, past and present
- Chuck Klosterman: Downtown Owl: A Novel. Also sometimes known ’round these parts as “The Metropolitan Urban Area of Nocturnal Birds.” The past two books I’ve read dealt with blizzards. And then the next, a thunderstorm:
- Max Frisch: Man in the Holocene, which was sad, haunting and filled with geology.
- Adrian Tomine: Shortcomings I always feel a little guilty that I tear through his stories, often missing the beautiful artwork entirely.
- James Wood: How Fiction Works
- Matt Taibbi: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion. Matt Taibbi doesn’t seem to like fat people.
Sarah Vowell
devouring both
- Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Sean Condon: My ‘Dam Life