My Second Spring in Brooklyn

When I lived in New York City decades ago I read voraciously. The commute to and from work always provided chunks of time to get lost in books.

My life in the two+ decades of car culture in Vermont removed that pocket of uncommitted time which I had found so important, and I never managed to find the space in those days to read very much.

As a result I listed reading books as one of the top activities I wanted to get back to with my return to NYC, along with walking and bike riding (both which also have blossomed.)  

41 days shy of being two years back, I just finished my 50th book.

Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
Leaving Brooklyn - Ursula Hegi

The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
Conversations with Professor Y - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The Elephant In The Room - Silence and Denial In Everyday Life - Eviatar Zerubavel

A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut

The Dance Most Of All - Jack Gilbert

You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski

One Secret Thing - Sharon Olds

Deadly Sins - Thomas Pynchon, Gore Vidal. et al

Blind Date: Sex & Philosophy - Anne Dufourmantelle
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire - Gore Vidal

Here Is New York - E. B. White

The Book Of Laughter & Forgetting - Milan Kundera
Pomosexual - Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality -
 edited by
          Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel

Three One-Act Plays - Woody Allen
Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff

Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen
Girl Meets Boy- Ali Smith
Essays - Wallace Shawn
The First Person - Ali Smith

Just Kids - Patti Smith

That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation -
 edited by Matt
          Bernstein Sycamore

This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground - Brian Doherty
On War - Howard Zinn

Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen

Pleasure Bound - Victorian Sex Rebels and The New Eroticism - Deborah Lutz
Society's Child - Janis Ian
Selected Stories - Robert Walser

The Story of A Nobody - Anton Checkov
Man of Fifty - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laughter In The Dark - Vladimir Nabokov

Point Omega - Don Dellilo
The Sea - John Banville
The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
Poems New & Collected - Wislawa Szymborska
Eclipse - John Banville

Anarchist's Convention - John Sayles
Monologue of A Dog: New Poems - Wislawa Szymborska

Here - Wislawa Szymborska

Twenty Prose Poems - Charles Baudelaire

Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon

Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
The Humbling - Philip Roth
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Theater In A Crowded Fire (Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man) - Lee Gilmore
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon

updated  29 June, make that 53 books in 2 years:
Report On Myself - Gregoire Bouillier
Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire - Philip Berrigan
Replenishing Jessica - Maxwell Bodenheim

Sunset , 20 May 2012

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