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Reading reading reading . . . I am so grateful to New York City (and not being dependent on car culture) for the time created on public transportation to do so much reading - one of my great joys. Ninety+ * books in the four years I've been back - and so many wonders awaiting.

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”
― Oakley Hall

I read like the flame reads the wood.”

― Alfred Döblin

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

 “There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.” - Nora Ephron

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* 1 Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

 2 Leaving Brooklyn - Ursula Hegi
3 The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
4 Conversations with Professor Y - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

 5 The Elephant In The Room - Silence and Denial In Everyday Life -
       Eviatar Zerubavel
 6 A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut
 7 The Dance Most Of All - Jack Gilbert
 8 You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense - Charles Bukowski
 9 One Secret Thing - Sharon Olds
10 Deadly Sins - Thomas Pynchon, Gore Vidal. et al
11 Blind Date: Sex & Philosophy - Anne Dufourmantelle
12 The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire - Gore Vidal
13 Here Is New York - E. B. White
14 The Book Of Laughter & Forgetting - Milan Kundera
15 Pomosexual - Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality -
          edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
16 Three One-Act Plays - Woody Allen
17 Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff
18 Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen
19 Girl Meets Boy- Ali Smith
20 Essays - Wallace Shawn
21 The First Person - Ali Smith
22 Just Kids - Patti Smith
23 That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation -
          edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore
24 This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground - Brian Doherty
25 On War - Howard Zinn
26 Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
27 Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
28 Pleasure Bound - Victorian Sex Rebels and The New Eroticism - Deborah Lutz
29 Society's Child - Janis Ian
30 Selected Stories - Robert Walser
31 The Story of A Nobody - Anton Checkov
32 Man of Fifty - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
33 Laughter In The Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
34 Point Omega - Don Dellilo
35 The Sea - John Banville
36 The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
37 Poems New & Collected - Wislawa Szymborska
38 Eclipse - John Banville
39 Anarchist's Convention - John Sayles
40 Monologue of A Dog: New Poems - Wislawa Szymborska
41 Here - Wislawa Szymborska
42 Twenty Prose Poems - Charles Baudelaire
43 Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
44 Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
45 The Humbling - Philip Roth
46 Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
47 Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
48 Theater In A Crowded Fire (Ritual and Spirituality at Burning Man) - Lee Gilmore
49 The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
50 Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
51 Report on Myself - Grégoire Bouillier
52 Fighting the Lamb’s War: Skirmishes with the American Empire - Philip Berrigan
53 Replenishing Jessica - Maxwell Bodenheim
54 Omega Minor - Paul Verhaeghen
55 Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships -
           Kayt Sukel
56 V. - Thomas Pynchon
57 The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks - Charles Simic
58 If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino
59 Traumnovelle (Dream Novel) - Arthur Schnitzler
60 Pynchon’s Against the Day A Corrupted Pilgrim’s Guide - edited by Jeffrey
             Severs and Christipher Leis
61 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62 Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
63 Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
64 Echo Maker - Richard Powers
65 Generosity: An Enhancement - Richard Powers
66 Free Will - Sam Harris
67 Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife - William H. Gass
68 A Letter Left to Me - Joseph McElroy
69 Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson
70 Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds
71 Grand Central Winter (Stories From The Street) - Lee Stringer
72 Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
73 Pictures of the Gone World - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
74 Bleeding Edge - Thomas Pynchon
76 Tenth of December - George Saunders
77 Glass Ocean - Lori Baker
78 The Love of A Good Woman - Alice Munro
79 The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship -
                 Charles Bukowski, illustrated by Robert Crumb
80 The Real Frank Zappa Book - Frank Zappa
81 While The Women Are Sleeping - Javier Marias
82 White Noise - Don Delillo
83 The People Look Like Flowers at Last - Charles Bukowski
84 Warlock - Oakley Hall
85 Oblivion! - David Foster Wallace
86 The Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
87 House Of Holes - Nicholson Baker
88 The End Of Love - Marcos Giralt Torrente
89 Consider The Lobster & Other Essays - David Foster Wallace
90 Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
91 Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace