Wednesday, February 5, 2014
books
- "Democracy in America" - deTocqueville
- "Rainbow Stories" > William T. Vollman
- "The Great Race" Dorothy Shovine
- "Unfamiliar Fishes" - Sarah Vowell
- 1861 - Adam Goodheart
- Adjunct: An Undigest > Peter Manson
- America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
- An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge > Ambrose Bierce
- Best American Essays 1986
- Bowling Alone > Robert Putnam
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves - Adam Hochschild
- Candy Girl > Diablo Cody
- Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists, and Dreamers
- Child 44
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dirty White Boys > Stephen Hunter
- Dizzy: the Life and Times of John Birks Gill (Palisades/Westwood)
- Don't the Moon Look Lonesome? > Stanley Crouch
- Europe and Elsewhere
- Far From the Madding Crowd > Thomas Hardy
- Fierce Pajamas
- Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style > Alain Silver
- Girl's Guide to Rocking
- Last Exit to Brooklyn > Hubert Selby, Jr.
- Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds > Dawn B. Sova
- Lonesome Dove > Larry McMurtry
- Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
- Odd Girl Out
- On Beauty > Zadie Smith
- One Hundred Years of Solitude > Gabriel Garcia Mårquez
- Orientalism > Edward Said
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Random Family
- Reading the OED > Amman Shea
- Slow Man > J.M. Coetzee
- Special Effects: An Oral History > Harry N. Abrams (Westchester)
- The Corrections > Jonathan Franzen
- The Culture of Narcissism > Christopher Lasch
- The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks
- The Economics of Warfare > Cecil Pigou
- The Garden of Allah > Sheilah Graham
- The Great Crash of 1929 > Galbraith
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks > Rebecca Skloot
- The Lives of Great Composers > Harold Schonberg
- The Master > Colm Toibin
- The Name of the Rose > Umberto Eco
- The Odyssey > Homer
- The Pillars of the Earth > Ken Follett
- The Plot Against America > Philip Roth
- The Prophet > Khalil Gibron
- The Red Queen > Margaret Drabble
- The Sea > John Banville
- The War Against Cliché > Martin Amis
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild
- Typee > Herman Melville
- Vanishing Point > David Markson
- Walden > Thoreau
- Web of Debt > Ellen Hodgson Brown
- When the Body Says No
- Wiseguy > Nicholas Pileggi
- You Can't Say You Can't Play
- You'll Like This Film Because You're In It > Michel Gondry
movies/t.v.
- Abigail's Party
- Beaten Down In Beantown
- Bleak House
- Danton
- Deerhunter
- Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
- Get Low
- Gleaming the Cube
- Gun Crazy
- Minnie and Moskowitz
- Modern Romance
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- Paradis Perdu > Abel Gance
- Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes
- Ruggles of Red Gap
- Sexy Beast
- The Conversation
- The Front > Martin Ritt
- The Funeral
- The Last Days of Disco
- The Last Mistress
- The Marx Brothers Collection
- The Return of Jezebel James
- The Wanderers
- Un Chien Andalou > Wong Kar Wai
Areas of Interest
- ABECEDA" Karel Teige
- "Complete Savages" "The New Show" "Not Necessarily the News"
- "Downright" Illustration Show
- "Eternal Summer" (Sonnet 18)
- "Learning to Curse: Essays on early modern culture"
- "Novelists on Novelists: an anthology"
- "Pale Fire"
- "the click of a well-made box"
- "The Goon Show"
- "The Graham Greene Film Reader"
- "The Revolution will be accessorized"
- "The Universal Baseball Association"
- "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"
- 'Earth to America" "Up Your Giggy" Studio 360 "Cosmos, Spheres, Voyager"
- Allen Ginsburg > Howl
- Amy Homes
- Amy Jean Porter
- Anish Kapoor
- Apollinaire
- Ben Brown Fine Art
- Billy T. James
- Blueberry Divinity
- Book Mooch
- Charles Dickens > GRADGRIND
- Chris Ware
- Conservation International
- Croesus + Mammon
- Crumble. Crack. Burn. > Von Glitschka
- Daniel Barenboim
- David Foster Wallace
- David Leavitt "The Body of Jonah Boyd"
- deMan/Foucault
- Design Can Change, It's Green Thing, Heated Issue
- Dizzy Gillespie > "You Ain't Such A Much" (I Love Paris, 2008)
- Does it Offend You, Yeah? > You Have No Idea...
- Donald Barthelme's "The Balloon"
- Donne, Hopkins, Larkin, Puig, Cortazar
- Edward Said
- Ellipses
- Encounters at the End of the World
- Francisco Collado-Rodriguez
- Frank Darabont
- George Meyer as Formal Couple in I Heart Huckabees
- Ghost World - Clowes
- Gibson, Eurudice, Heidegger, Wittgenstein
- Gore Vidal
- Greek Mythology
- Harvard Lampoon
- Herzon + deMeuron, Tallix, Narciso Rodriguez
- Howells, Wharton, Updike, Oates > realism
- hypnagogic/hypnapompic
- Ian Frazier
- Islands
- Jay McInerney "The Good Life"
- Jean Rochefort
- Jim Crace
- Jim Flora
- John Bayley "The Power of Delight"
- Josephine Dolan
- Justin Ahrens
- Komedy Kool Kids
- Lee Evans
- Linda Hutcheon
- Lobochevsky, Riemann
- Lorrie Moore
- Loyd Sigmon [Sig Alert]
- Mackinac Island
- Mark Leyner "The Tetherballs of Bougainville"
- McLuhan
- metafiction
- Michael Paul Spikes
- Mike Reiss
- Moral Re-Armament
- Nabakov, Borges, Barth
- net ball
- Pagent of the Masters
- Pali Canon
- pedalo
- Peter Sellers
- Pigovian Tax
- post positive adjectives
- post-structuralism
- Ralph Steadman
- Raymond Chandler
- representing the "familiar" as unfamiliar
- Rhys Darby
- Rick Powers
- Robert Coover "A Child Again"
- Robert Pinsky, Barbara Morgan, Dick Gordon
- Robert Scholes
- Robert Sklar
- Roger Wilmut, Spike Milligan
- Roland Barthes
- Sam Simon
- samizat
- Satyidat Ray
- self-reflexive games
- Short Attention Span Theater
- Simon Wiesenthal, John Swartzwelder
- slow progress of technology
- Soylent Green
- Stephanie Mellarmé "A Tomb for Anatole"
- Steven Heller
- Susan Daitch "Storytown: stories"
- Taz Tagore
- The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival
- The Shire New Zealand
- Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King
- Tuvalu
- Valentina Tereshka
- Vittorio Hösle " An essay on the nature of the comical"
- William Randolph Hearst
- Wyatt Earp
- Yuri Gagarin
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