WSC possible reading list

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Well, we all read the Daily News and swear by every word
over here in Barry Town, at least that's how I listen to
that Steely Dan song. Only in P's house the NY Times was
probably delivered daily, well he certainly read it to write
V. as Dave has pointed out here. In 1955, no, maybe 1956,
June 10th, I think, the Sunday NY Times Book Review had
O'Flaherty on the
front. 

What the WSC might have been reading in these days: 

Calendar

In 1957, we lost Sholem Asch, Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary,
Alfred Doblin, Bhai Vir Singh. 

Published were, Ray Bradbury's *Dandelion Wine*, T.S.
Eliot's *On Poetry and Poets*, William Faulkner's *The
Town*, Jack Kerouac's *On the Road*, we never went back to
Lyle Bland & Co. and the Jewish factory that burned down,
but... Bernard Malamud's *The Assistant*, was also published
in 57, I have not read it, but the plot runs: 

a Gentile hoodlum robs a poor Jewish shopkeeper and then,
driven out of a sense of pity that he cannot overcome, goes
to work for his victim, gradually becoming involved in the
Jew's defeated and unsuccessful life; he falls in love with
the grocer's daughter, assumes the man's business (and even
his inner self) after his death, and finally, through the
rite of circumcision, becomes a Jew.

And, Vladimir Nabokov's *Pnin*, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged,
in the great big friendly book store in Union Square they
have posters running along the moving stairs, Rand is next
to Fitzgerald, next to Hemmingway, but no Pynchon, so it
goes, Camus took the Nobel Prize for literature, they don't
give one for Philosophy btw, O'Neill was awarded the 
Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night (published
and produced in 1956), never drive a car when your
dead...but in 1958 George Edward Moore died too, if I ever
have a dream with Chomsky and Kripke in it I'll ask them why
L1 speakers of Spanish, regardless of Nationality, say
crocodile and not alligator, probably the same reason why L1
speakers of Englsish don't have so many "beans" in their
lexicon, data (social liguistics) and Latin. 

http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/

Chinua Achebe's *Things Fall Apart*, John Barth's *The End
of the Road*, Samuel Beckett's *La Derniere Bande (Krapp's
Last Tape)*, *Truman Capote's *Breakfast at Tiffany's*,
Graham Greene's *Our Man in Havana*, Aldous Huxley's *Brave
New World Revisited*, Jack Kerouac's *The Subterraneans*, 
Bernard Malamud's *The Magic Barrel*,  Kenzaburo Oe's
*Shisha No Ogori (Proud Are the Dead)*, Boris Pasternak's
*Doctor Zhivago*, Karl Shapiro's *Poems of a Jew*, C.P.
Snow's *The Conscience of the Rich*,    Tennessee Williams'
*Suddenly Last Summer.* 

Luis Pales Matos died in 59, Benjamin Peret died also. 

Edward Albee's *The Zoo Story* was performed in Germany, 
Jacques Barzun's *The House of Intellect* was published,
reminds me that, what, what the hell was it, oh, in Barzun's
latest big book there is a definition of Relativism worth
looking at, maybe I can find it before we go down that
slippery slope. We got Saul Bellow's *Henderson the Rain
King*, Charles Bukowski's *Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail*,
William S. Burroughs' *The Naked Lunch*, Gunter Grass' *Die
Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)*, Jack Kerouac's *Mexico City
Blues*, Philip Roth's *Goodbye, Columbus*, John Updike's
*The Poorhouse Fair*, Kurt Vonnegut's *Sirens of Titan*, 

Also in 59, Arthur Summerfield, Postmaster-General of the
United States, baned D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
(1928) from the U.S. mails on the grounds of obscenity in
1960, the U.S. Court of Appeals will reverse that ruling.