Tuesday, 3 June 2008

what's on my most immediate to-read list:

-Emma Goldman
-Guy Debord
-Bertolt Brecht
-Peter Shaffer; "equus"
-Cormac McCarthy; "blood meridian"
-Charles Baudelaire; "mallarmé"
-Jean-Paul Sartre; "nausea"
-Philip K. Dick
-W. Somerset Maugham; "of human bondage"
-"Userlands" (edited by Dennis Cooper)*
-Graham Robb; Rimbaud biography
-Ariana Reines; "the cow"
-Arthur Conan Doyle; "valley of fear"
-John Coldstream; Dirk Bogarde biography
-Max Frish; "man in the holocene"
-Paul Verlaine
-Bill Knott

*for some reason i wrote the weaklings here, but i meant userlands. i have already read the weaklings.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can't speak for all of them, but you won't regret the Rimbaud bio, or "the cow", or anything by Bill Knott or Guy Debord. And overall, this list looks superb!

kier said...

i am really really looking forward to the rimbaud bio, and to reading ariana reines! glad to hear you're a fan of the rimbaud biography as well, i've heard a lot of goo things about it.

Thomas Moronic said...

Ditto on the Rimbaud book. Really excellent.

l@rstonovich said...

Bill Knott was my poetry prof. in college, lucky me! His shit is unbeatable...

and Blood Meridian is in my top 5 of all time...thx for the b-day wishes!