Light Summer Reading

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, here's an easy (?), less controversial (?)
question: what are y'all reading this summer?  Me ...

Just finished off ...

Killen, Andreas. 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate,
  Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America.
  New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.

http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/catalogue/details2.asp?isbn=9781596910591&cf=0&search=killen&isbns=&page=1

... which I've been posting from of late.  On to ...

Dolar, Mladen.  A Voice and Nothing More.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10763

Flaubert, Gustave.  Bouvard and Pécuchet.
   Trans. Mark Polizzotti.  Normal, IL: Dalkey
   Archive, 2005.

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/flaubert.html

Pynchon Notes 52-53 (Spring-Fall 2003)

http://w3.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/contents.html

Samuel, Raphael. Theatres of Memory, Vol. 1:
   Past and Present in Contemporary Culture.
   London and New York: Verso, 1994.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/samuel_theaters_memory1.shtml

Zuberi, Nabeel.  Sounds English: Transnational
   Popular Music.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s01/zuberi.html

Or at least that's what I'm packing today ...

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
> I bogged down something fierce early in Europe
> Central a few weeks ago.  It's not him, it's me. 
> Other schtuff going on.  Dog whelped (want a puppy?)
> etc
> 
> also other books calling louder
> Got hooked on the 1st book of China Mieville's
> trilogy (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron
> Council, steampunk genre) but then skimmed the last
> 2 -, and working through the 2 shelves of Joyce
> Carol Oates in the local library - Black Water is a
> quickie I read last night, she sets Chappaquiddick
> in Maine in 1991 or so from the girl's pov as she's
> drowning - you know, the usual cheerful
> laugh-a-minute JCO.  But I think she is great!  
> 
> Also took out a Gaddis book (a frolic of his own)
> but I've never yet failed to bog down in that
> territory.
> 
> Also, last but definitely not least, trying to catch
> up with Toby in M&D....

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