Light Summer Reading

[James Kyllo]

Just been given the new David Mitchell, and am awaiting the postal
arrival of the new George Saunders.  U.S.! by Chris Bachelder lined up
too.

best

James

On 5/29/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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