2011 reading list: April - September
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise. NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. See full review here.
Franz Kafka, The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text. Tel Aviv, Schocken, 1998. A primer on how not to behave upon moving to a new city to look for work.
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Short answer? Become unstuck in time. And the key to time travel is understanding that you're already doing it--everything else follows naturally.
George Vecsey, Stan Musial: An American Life. New York: ESPN, 2011. See full review here.
Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. New York: Plume, 1971. A warning that Strat-o-Matic is a game best played with friends.
Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. See full review here.
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space. NY: ACE Books, 2000. A grand space opera in three voices: archaeologist, assassin, and astronaut, who together face an alien doomsday device.
Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux. NY: Bloomsday USA, 2011. This re-issued 1975 National Book Award winning novel about writing a novel about a would-be novelist's hairpiece is a brilliantly-faceted portrait of an academic writer. It is also far too subtle to compete with summer; it requires the time and attention for wonder, and would be best enjoyed when longer nights allow leisurely lingering.
Jessie Sheidlower, The F-Word (3rd edition). NY: Oxford UP, 2009. "This book contains every sense of fuck, and every compound word or phrase of which fuck is a part, that the editor believes has ever had broad currency in English (xxxvi)."
Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. NY: Riverhead, 2010. "If you were twenty years older and I was fifty years younger..." the titular 91-year-old tells the teenage beauty who comes to care for him after his nephew is shot as she helps him fulfill the promises left unkept at life's end.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Take Time for Paradise. NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. See full review here.
Franz Kafka, The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text. Tel Aviv, Schocken, 1998. A primer on how not to behave upon moving to a new city to look for work.
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Short answer? Become unstuck in time. And the key to time travel is understanding that you're already doing it--everything else follows naturally.
George Vecsey, Stan Musial: An American Life. New York: ESPN, 2011. See full review here.
Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. New York: Plume, 1971. A warning that Strat-o-Matic is a game best played with friends.
Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. See full review here.
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space. NY: ACE Books, 2000. A grand space opera in three voices: archaeologist, assassin, and astronaut, who together face an alien doomsday device.
Thomas Williams, The Hair of Harold Roux. NY: Bloomsday USA, 2011. This re-issued 1975 National Book Award winning novel about writing a novel about a would-be novelist's hairpiece is a brilliantly-faceted portrait of an academic writer. It is also far too subtle to compete with summer; it requires the time and attention for wonder, and would be best enjoyed when longer nights allow leisurely lingering.
Jessie Sheidlower, The F-Word (3rd edition). NY: Oxford UP, 2009. "This book contains every sense of fuck, and every compound word or phrase of which fuck is a part, that the editor believes has ever had broad currency in English (xxxvi)."
Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. NY: Riverhead, 2010. "If you were twenty years older and I was fifty years younger..." the titular 91-year-old tells the teenage beauty who comes to care for him after his nephew is shot as she helps him fulfill the promises left unkept at life's end.
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