7 For Seven by Brady_Gerber
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Vonnegut Weekend at Governors Island
Next weekend in NYC!
[Writing], in my experience, is much more mysterious and more of a pain in the ass to discuss truthfully.
Alex Ross – The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Bob Dylan – Tarantula
Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Ian F Svenonius – Censorship Now!!
Henry Miller – Black Spring
James Joyce – Finnegans Wake
Jorge Luis Borges – A Universal History of Iniquity
Patricio Pron – My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase
Ruth Ozeki – A Tale For The Time Being
Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried
Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way
Marilyn Monroe – Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms
Carl Wilson – Let’s Talk About Love (331/3 series)
Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan
Orlando Figes – A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones
Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf
Theodore M. Bernstein – The Careful Writer
David McCullough – The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cormac McCarthy – The Road
Kurt Vonnegut – Sucker’s Portfolio
Joan Didion – The White Album
Kurt Vonnegut – Fates Worse Than Death
Henry Miller – The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Greil Marcus – Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll
Kurt Vonnegut – Palm Sunday
Henry Miller – Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Kurt Vonnegut – Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
Joseph Heller – Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man*
George Orwell – Down and Out in Paris and London*
Thomas Pynchon – V.
Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs – And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
James Baldwin – Go Tell It On The Mountain
John Milton – Paradise Lost
Steven Hyden – Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About The Meaning Of Life
Kurt Vonnegut – Armageddon In Retrospect
Haruki Murakami – Kafka On The Shore
Henry Miller – The Cosmological Eye
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
David Sedaris – Naked
Anton Chekhov – The Essential Tales of Chekhov (edited by Richard Ford)
Jonathan Franzen – Freedom
George Saunders – CivilWarLand In Bad Decline
Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
Alex Ross – Listen To This
Bryan Waterman – Television’s Marquee Moon (33 1/3 Series)
Kurt Vonnegut – We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Crack-Up
Kurt Vonnegut – While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
Simon Rich – Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
Jack Kerouac – Dharma Bums
Kurt Vonnegut – Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
E.B. White – Essays of E.B. White
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer – Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing
Sherwood Anderson – Winesburg, Ohio
Arthur Koestler – Darkness at Noon
Norman Mailer – The Naked and the Dead
Bill Bryson – A Shot History of Nearly Everything
J. Bradford Hipps – The Adventurist
Sara Marcus – Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
John Szwed – Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
Joe Klein – Woody Guthrie: A Life
John Darnielle – Wolf in White Van
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground
Joe Harvard – The Velvet Underground And Nico (331/3 Series)
Bob Mehr – Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
David Foster Wallace – Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Jonathan Clements – Anime: A History
Ian Condry – The Soul of Anime
Patti Smith – M Train
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince
Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
Raymond Queneau – Exercises in Style
Rob Sheffield – Love Is a Mix Tape
Mark Pendergrast – Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
William H. Ukers – All About Coffee
James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, and Tara Duggan – The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee
Tom Gauld – Mooncop
T.R. Reid – The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Elisabeth Askin, MD & Nathan Moore, MD – The Health Care Handbook: A Clear and Concise Guide to the American Health Care System
Clayton M. Christensen – The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care*
Jack Kerouac – Big Sur
David Goldhill – Catastrophic Care
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOQi7xspRc)
I started reading Finnegans Wake today and I already feel overwhelmed. But I did some research and apparently the best way to read this book is out loud.
Listening to Joyce read a page himself, in addition to being a special treat, actually helps with the reading. I think.
Or your favorite movies. Someone get to work on this please.
Musicians And Their Favorite Books: Jonathan Ben-Menachem (Whitewash) – Gravity’s Rainbow
Welcome to the first installment of Musicians And Their Favorite Books. Every month I feature a NYC musician who writes about one of their favorite books and how it influences their work. I also take a photo of the artist with their own copy of the book.
Jonathan Ben-Menachem is the bass player of Whitewash, whose latest album Shibboleth is out now on Sad Cactus Records. He is also the…
‘Here is New York’ – E.B. White (1949). White was visiting New York City during one of its hottest summers when he wrote this classic essay about what made New York City so different from all the other cities in the world. With a simple writing style that is romantic but not naive, White treats the city as a living, breathing organism that is just as confounding as the people who inhabit it, and White understands that to be a New Yorker umbrellas several personalities and walks of life that are all equal in this city built on hope and fear. Written over 65 years ago, the essay is full of insights and observations that are still relevant to the city in 2015. Consider this essential New York literature. #reading #books