[lit-ideas] Re: 2006 reading lists
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:46:43 -0600
Not much this year.
McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy -- travel essays; The Clouds in Memphis, C. J.
Hribal -- short stories; Blow-Up and Other Stories, Cortazar; The DaVinci
Code, Brown; Mystic River, Lehane; Trainspotting, Welsh, American Primitive,
Mary Oliver -- poetry; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, Amy Bloom --
short stories; Anatomist, Andahazi; The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels ;
Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels -- both the Pagels' books are studies in early
Christianity; Vineland, Pynchon; Tropic of Capricorn, Miller; Lady
Chatterly's Lover, Lawrence; Henry and June, Anais Nin -- journal. A large
and very varied selection of poetry. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore; Take
the Cannoli: Stories From the New World, Sarah Vowel -- humorous political
and cultural essays; Wakefield, Andrei Codrescu.
My favorites were Vineland -- I'd been trying to read it for 10 years,
finally started over and didn't stop until the last page. I loved it, funny
and bizarre and culturally scary. Birds of America -- superb short stories.
Anais Nin's Henry and June -- makes you feel like Tiresias. And finally,
but certainly not least, Cortazar. He's amazing.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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