Inspired by LISP SERVICE, an ongoing list of what I’m reading / have recently read:
2022
Skid / Dean Young
The Hearing Trumpet / Leonora Carrington
Surrealism Beyond Borders / eds. Stephanie D'Alessandro and Matthew Gale
The Leviathan / Joseph Roth tr. Michael Hofmann
The Surrealism Reader: An Anthology of Ideas / eds. Dawn Ades, Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski
A Book of Surrealist Games / Alastair Brotchie and Mel Gooding
The Absence of Myth / Georges Bataille
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop / Felicia Rose Chavez
The Magnetic Fields / André Breton and Philippe Soupault tr. David Gascoyne
Artforum / César Aira tr. Katherine Silver
The Songs of Maldoror / Comte de Lautréamont tr. Guy Wernham
Ubu Roi / Alfred Jarry tr. Barbara Wright
The Breasts of Tiresias / Guillaume Apollinaire
Anodyne / Khadijah Queen
The Housekeeper & The Professor / Yoko Ogawa tr. Stephen Snyder
Sonnets / Bernadette Mayer
The Depression / Mathias Svalina and Jon Pack
Vulture / Thom Van Dooren
So Long, See You Tomorrow / William Maxwell
Donkey Gospel / Tony Hoagland
The Art of Recklessness / Dean Young
The Blind Owl / Sadegh Hedayat tr. D.P. Costello
The Hole / Hiroko Oyamada tr. David Boyd
Ruination / Katie Jean Shinkle
The Dead Father / Donald Barthelme
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism / Amanda Montell
Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo tr. Margaret Sayers Peden
The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
Sabrina & Corina / Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson
The Hour of the Star / Clarice Lispector tr. Benjamin Moser
The Nose / Nikolai Gogol
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country / William Gass
2021
Michael Kolhaas / Heinreich von Kleist tr. Michael Hofmann
Rancher / Selah Ann Saterstrom
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories / Taeko Kono tr. Lucy North
Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Two Stories / Osvaldo Lamborghini tr. Jessica Sequeira
The Tables of the Law / Thomas Mann
Frail Sister / Karen Green
Lightning Rods / Helen Dewitt
Damnation / Janice Lee
A Year of Misreading the Wildcats / Orchid Tierney
Suite for Barbara Loden / Nathalie Léger tr. Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon
Ice / Anna Kavan
Telephone / Percival Everett
The Execution of Justice / Friedrich Dürrenmatt tr. John E. Woods
Destroy, She Said / Marguerite Duras tr. Barbara Bray
Border Districts / Gerald Murnane
The Book of Monelle / Marcel Schwob tr. Chris Clarke
Imaginary Lives / Marcel Schwob tr. Chris Clarke
The End / Aditi Machado
The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster / Éric Chevillard trans. Chris Clarke
Children’s Crusade / Marcel Schwob trans. Kit Schluter
Home Movie, Nowhere / Julia Madsen
At Least We Can Apologize / Lee Ki-Ho trans. Christopher J. Dykas
The Devils of Loudun / Aldous Huxley
Compass / Mathias Énard trans. Charlotte Mandell
Zorrie / Laird Hunt
The Hole / José Revueltas trans. Sophie Huges & Amanda Hopkinson
Three Apples Fell from Heaven / Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Gascoyne / Stanley Crawford
Hurricane Season / Fernanda Melchor trans. Sophie Hughes
The Texas Review All Essay Issue / edited by Katie Jean Shinkle
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders / Vitezslav Nezval trans. David Short
The Factory / Hiroko Oyamada trans. David Boyd
The Nocilla Trilogy: Lab / Agustín Fernández Mallo trans. Thomas Bunstead
2020
The Hole / Hiroko Oyamada trans. David Boyd
The Nocilla Trilogy: Dream & Experience / Agustín Fernández Mallo trans. Thomas Bunstead
True Stories / Sophie Calle
Ruination / Katie Jean Shinkle
Mishima / Margaret Yourcenar
In the Pines / Alice Notley
Breasts and Eggs / Mieko Kawakami trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd
Doppelganger / Daša Drndic trans. S. D. Curtis and Celia Hawkesworth
The Shooting Gallery / Yuko Tsushima trans. Geraldine Harcourt
Indiana, Indiana / Laird Hunt
On Bullfighting / A. L. Kennedy
Cane / Jean Toomer
Trilogy / H.D.
Vernal Hurt / Cass Eddington
Master & Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Jah Hills / Unathi Slasha
The Takeover / Muriel Spark
Swole / Jerika Marchan
Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo trans. Lysander Kemp
New Bad News / Ryan Ridge
Black Nature / ed. Camille Dungy
The New Jim Crow / Michele Alexander
The Memory Room / Mary Rakow
Chasm / Dorothea Tanning
Modern Philosophy (Hume) / Richard Francks
Bacacay / Witold Grombowicz trans. Bill Johnston
The Archive of Alternate Endings / Lindsay Drager
Before / Carmen Boullosa
I’m From Nowhere / Lindsay Lerman
Animals Eat Each Other / Elle Nash
Invitation to a Beheading / Vladimir Nabokov
McGlue / Otessa Moshfegh
The Descent of Alette / Alice Notley
God’s Country / Percival Everett
The Ruined Map / Kobo Abe
2019
Nadja / Andre Breton
Kangaroo Notebook / Kobo Abe
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington / Leonora Carrington
The Milk Bowl of Feathers / Essential Surrealist Writers
The Visit / Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Language of Inquiry / Lyn Hejinian
The Uncanny / Nicholas Royle
The Last Night of the Leamington Licker / Kirk Lake
Tropic of Orange / Karen Tei Yamashita
Jacques the Fatalist / Denis Diderot'
End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions
Amulet / Roberto Bolaño
In Hazard / Richard Hughes
Blue Self Portrait / Noémi Lefebvre
Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne / Roland Topor
Bunny / Mona Awad
Ideal Suggestions in Divinatory Poetics / Selah Saterstrom
The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky
Burn Fortune / Brandi Homan
Sadness / Donald Barthelme
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace / Patty Yumi Cottrell
Three / Ann Quin
The Origin of the Brunists / Robert Coover
Aerialists / Mark Mayer
Dogs / Rebecca Brown
TV Sutras / Dodie Bellamy
Dictee / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
The Autobiography of Red / Anne Carson
St. Julian the Hospitaller / Gustave Flaubert
Breaking & Entering / Joy Williams
The Spy who Came in From the Cold / John le Carré
The Good Spy / Kai Bird
Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine / Stanley Crawford
The Concept of Dread / Søren Kierkegaard
The Bridegroom was a Dog / Yoko Tawada
Fata Morgana / Svetislav Basara
Palafox / Eric Chevillard
The Proof / Agota Kristof
The Hour of the Star / Clarice Lispector
Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo
Come the Restorer / William Goyen
The Pledge / Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Assignment / Friedrich Durrenmatt
Libra / Don Delillo
Big Blondes / Jean Echenoz
Tokyo Fiance / Amelie Nothomb
Hygiene and the Assassin / Amelie Nothomb
The Idea of the Holy / Rudolf Otto