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Thursday, October 6, 2011

In Honor of Britain's National Poetry Day

A Modest Proposal of Feline Taxonomy
by Dr. Prof. Erwin Fuzzwinkle, Ph. D. of the Humane Society

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kjml's Reading List

***Most recent at top***
**Snow (2004), by Orhan Pamuk
**Phenomenology: Its Genesis and Prospect (1958), by Quentin Lauer
Orlando (1928), by Virginia Woolf
The Transcendence of the Ego (1936), by Jean Paul Sartre
The Philosophy of Hegel (1923), by W. T. Stace
December
Varieties of Interpretation (1978), by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
"The Prelude" (1805), by William Wordsworth
The Master (2004), by Colm Toibin
Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience: Three Approaches to the Mind (1989), by Edward M. Hundert
Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
The Social Misconstruction of Reality (1996), by Richard F. Hamilton
November
The Death of Virgil (1945), by Hermann Broch
The Rules of Chaos (1969), bu Stephen Vizinczey
The Discarded Image (1964), by C.S. Lewis
**Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965), Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Strange Pilgrims (1994), Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Antonia (1918), by Willa Cather
October
**The End of the Poem (2006) by Paul Muldoon
The Art of Fiction (1959), by Ayn Rand
Atonement (2001), by Ian McEwan
Tristam Shandy (1759), by Lawrence Sterne
September
A Fearful Joy (1949), by Joyce Cary
Pfiltz (1995), by Andrew Crumey
The Tanners (2009), by Robert Walser
Wo Warst Du, Adam? (1963), by Heinrich Bøll
August
The Easter Parade (1976), by Richard Yates
Literary Theory: An introduction (1983), by Terry Eagleton
The Bird Artist (1994), by Howard Norman
Stories (Vintage 1991), by Katherine Mansfield
On Deconstruction (1987), by William Cullers
The Archivist (1998), by Martha Cooley
July
Embers (1942, 2001), by Sandor Marai
Port Mungo (2005), by Patrick McGrath
Death in Summer (1998), by William Trevor
No Great Mischief (2001), by Alistair MacLeod
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998)
Nocturnes: Stories of Music and Night (2009), by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Breaking of Style (1995), by Helen Vendler
June
After Rain: Short Stories (1996), by William Trevor
The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (1995), by Seamus Heaney
“Franz Kafka” (1966), by Walter Skokel (An interpretive essay in the Columbia U. series)
Freedom (2010), by Jonathan Franzen (postponed ‘onacounta’)
The Duino Elegies/ Die Duino Elegien by R.M Rilke
Mefisto (1986), by John Banville
The Quiet American (1955), by Graham Greene (re-read)
The Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable), by Samuel Beckett (an overdue re-read)
The Sea (2005), by John Banville
“The Iliad”, by William Fagles (A month-long perusal of a classic in a new translation)
May
Reading Rilke (1999), by William H. Gass
Blood Meridian (1985), by Cormac McCarthy
Underworld (1985), by Don DeLillo
W. H. Auden (1982): A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter
Reading Modern Poetry (1989), by Michael Schmidt
Waterland (1983), by Graham Swift
“The Inferno”, by Dante Alighieri (a month-long re-reading of a classic)
April
2011
**Indicates works in progress

Seminal Influences: These are works which have had a lasting resonance since first we met.

"Peer Gynt" (1867), by Henrik Ibsen
The Tower and the Abyss (1957), by Erich Kahler
The Unquiet Grave (1942), by Cyril Connoly
The Horse’s Mouth (1944), by Joyce Cary
“Araby” and "The Dead", from Dubliners (1904), by James Joyce
"A preface to ‘Paradise Lost’” (1942), by C. S. Lewis“
Der Schandfleck (re-released 1963), by Ludwig Anzengruber
Der Tod in Venedig (1954), by Thomas Mann
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (1993), by Roberto Calasso
A River Runs Through It, (1976), by Norman Maclean
The Rules of Chaos (1969), by Stephen Vizinczey

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

In Honor of Britain's National Poetry Day

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