reading list

About Writing, Samuel R. Delany I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, eds. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place Playground, Berliac Inverso, Berliac Love Was a Meteor That Disintegrated As Soon as It Entered My Atmosphere, Berliac Smoo #8, Simon Moreton Another relatively fallow month, time spent screwing around online that could […]

The Motion of Light in Water, Samuel R. Delany Bough Down, Karen Green Choose Your Own November, Simon Moreton There’s a Wilderness in Our Memory, Sarah Schneider Doubt, Sarah Schneider Mon Valley, Sarah Schnieder (No longer having 1.5 hrs commute time has had a frustratingly significant impact on time spent reading. Working to resolve this.)

I’ve been keeping a record of what I read for a while because otherwise I will forget. I used to post this record online. I stopped doing that for a while and I’d like to start doing it again. Lila, Marilynne Robinson The Recognitions, William Gaddis Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein (reread) The Autobiography of Alice […]

I liked keeping track of this last year so I’m going to keep at it. Here’s what I’ve read so far in 2013, in rough chronological order. More books than comics so far. I liked most of this stuff a lot. Cross Game Vols. 6-8 // Mitsuru Adachi C // Tom McCarthy Twist Street Issue […]

(I originally posted this yesterday but somehow the actual list part got deleted. Sorry! Here’s the real list.) Here, simply in alphabetical order, are some of my favorite comics from this year. Sometimes, when I read a comic that is mediocre, or even kind of good, and I feel frustrated. I want to love every […]

Maybe I will do these again this year? We’ll see. Best of year list coming later tonight or tomorrow. Twist Street Issue Four Chapter 1 // Abhay Khosla Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World // Haruki Murakami Cosmicomics // Italo Calvino Aama Vols. 1-2 // Frederik Peeters Multiple Warheads #1-3 // Brandon […]

I was doing these on a monthly basis for a while (here are the other ones), and in anticipation of maybe trying to write some kind of best of the year thing, here is what I have read over the past few months. Smoo #5-6 // Simon Moreton SF #1-2 // Ryan Cecil Smith Pompeii […]

Gloriana // Kevin Huizenga Project Ballad // Kevin Czapewski and Michael Peterson Cold Heat Special #1 // Frank Santoro and Jon Vermilya Ritual #1 // Malachi Ward Pope Hats #1 // Ethan Rilly Spider Monkey #1 // Jesse McManus and Austin English Eight Grade // Sam Alden Haunter // Sam Alden The Blonde Woman // […]

I didn’t really read anything in April, but I did alright this time around. Love and Rockets New Stories Vol. 3 // Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez Pale Fire // Vladimir Nabokov Sublife Vol. 1 // Jon Pham Pocket Full of Coffee // Joe Decie Beachcasters // Simon Moreton Untitled story // Vincent Giard and Alexandre […]

Oops, a little late on this again. Here’s what I’ve been reading lately: Cockfighter // Charles Willeford (reread) Le Gout du Chlore // Bastien Vives Panier de Singes // Ruppert & Mulot  Chroniques de Jerusalem // Guy Delisle Clash of Kings // George RR Martin