06.27.08
suggested regional flora, et al. (Jeff Clark, contributor)
Amelanchier laevis / Allegheny Serviceberry
Angelica atropurpurea / Angelica
Sambuca Nigra "Black Lace" / Black Lace Elderberry
When the Roses Bloom Again, Laura Cantrell (Diesel Only Records)
Complications, Garrett Caples (Meritage)
Acer palmatum "Sango-kaku" / Coral Bark Japanese Maple
Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region (Cranbrook Academy of Science)
Infamous Angel and My Life, Iris DeMent (Warner Bros.)
Pinus Strobus "Nana" / Dwarf Eastern White Pine
World Ball Notebook, Sesshu Foster (City Lights)
Lullaby, Christine Hume (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Juna Hume Clark (3 years old)
Sources, Devin Johnston (Turtle Point Press)
Rabbit Habits, Man Man (Anti Records)
Six Demon Bag, Man Man (Ace Fu Records)
Hughson's Tavern, Fred Moten (Leon Works)
The Native Plant Nursery (nativeplant.com)
Hysteria from Freud to Lacan, Juan-David Nasio (Other Press)
The Cow, Ariana Reines (Fence Books)
Ajax, Sophocles [John Tipton, trans.] (Flood Editions)
Antennaria parlinii / Smooth Pussytoes
"The Prisoner," Orin Swift Cellars, 2006
Chelone glabra / Turtlehead
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence and Polynomials and Pollen, Jay Wright (Dalkey Archive)
On the Beach, Neil Young (Reprise)
06.27.08
suggested reading (Matthew Henriksen, contributor)
Apparition Wren, poems by Maureen Alsop
You & The Singing Knives (reissues), poems by Frank Stanford
Daybook of Perversities & Main Events, chapbook by Frank Sherlock
When You Have a Rabbit, chapbook by Landis Everson
Tight 3, edited by Andrew Hughes, Michael Schiavo & Whit Griffin
Dog Girl, poems by Heidi Lynn Staples
B52, chapbook by Phil Cordelli
At Last Unfolding Congo, chapbook by Alex Lemon
Vale Tudo, chapbook by Sommer Browning
Disclamor, poems by G.C. Waldrep
suggested listening (Matthew Henriksen, contributor)
The Flying Cup Club, Beirut
Heretic Pride, The Mountain Goats
Evil Urges, My Morning Jacket
Travels, Travels
Phylactery Factory, White Hinterland
02.19.08
suggested reading (Jesse Pires, contributor)
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, by Dan Kennedy
The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, by Lynn Gumpert, et al.
French Cinema in the 1970s: Echoes of May, by Alison Smith
Shortcomings, by Adrian Tomine
Never Break the Chain: Fleetwood Mac and the Making of Rumours, by Cath Carroll
suggested listening (Jesse Pires, contributor)
Craft of the Lost Art, Shape of Broad Minds
The Jewel in the Lotus, Bennie Maupin
Iron Curtain Innocence, Bobb Trimbel
Everybody, The Sea and Cake
Everywhere you Look & s/t , Kingface
02.19.08
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
The Clock Maker's Memoir, poems by Dan Featherston
Not One of Them in Place, prose by Norman Finkelstein
Cannibal 3, edited by Katy & Matt Henriksen
The Second Diasporist Manifesto, by R.B. Kitaj
Life in the Ordovician, poems by Robert Murphy
The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, by Mark Scroggins
Skirt Full of Black, poems by Sun Yung Shin
Ajax, translated by John Tipton
Four Fables, poems by John Tipton
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Everything All the Time CD, Band of Horses
Diaspora Soul CD, Steven Bernstein
A Winner's Shadow CD, Kid Dakota
Gospel Store Front CD, Lo Moda
The Bedlam in Goliath CD, The Mars Volta
Boxer CD, The National
The Cultural Society Audio Recording No 1 12", v/a
09.19.07
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
That Abrupt Here, poems by Joel Bettridge
Monaural
, poems by Joel Felix
Passing Over, poems by Norman Finkelstein
Circulating Flowers, poems by Chuck Stebelton
Emptied of All Ships, poems by Stacy Szymaszek
Music's Mask and Measure, poems by Jay Wright
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
None Shall Pass CD, Aesop Rock
Tool Box CD, Calexico
Happy Apple Back on Top CD, Happy Apple
Rashanim CD, Jon Madof
Sama Layuca CD, McCoy Tyner
05.14.07
suggested reading (Stacy Szymaszek, contributor)
Entusiasm Odes & Otium, by Jean Day
Echolalias, by Daniel Heller-Roazen
To Be Sung, by Michael Kelleher
Caller and Other Pieces, by Tom Raworth
Mirrors for Gold, by Roberto Tejeda
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, by Richard White
Human Resources, by Rachel Zolf
suggested listening (Stacy Szymaszek, contributor)
Plastic Letters, Blondie
Souls of the Labadie Tract, David Grubbs & Susan Howe
Double Nickels on the Dime, The Minutemen
Primordial Lift, Pauline Oliveros
Foundation Ska, The Skatalites
suggested viewing (Stacy Szymaszek, contributor)
I Can’t Sleep, Claire Denis
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tropical Malady, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
05.14.07
suggested reading (Drew Kunz, contributor)
/ nor, Issue 1
Aufgabe 6, Spring 2007
In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura, by Marcel Cohen
Invocation, by Gale Czerski
Case Sensitive, by Kate Greenstreet
Record-breakers, by Anthony Hawley
Picture of the Basket, by Sarah Mangold
Caller and Other Pieces, by Tom Raworth
suggested listening (Drew Kunz, contributor)
Music From the Once Festival 1961-1966, Robert Ashley, et al.
Let's Get Out of This Country, Camera Obscura
Sound Grammar, Ornette Coleman
The Runners Four, Deerhoof
Widows, Lucky Dragons
5:55, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Comment te dire adieu, Francois Hardy
Rather Ripped, Sonic Youth
01.04.07
suggested reading (Pam Rehm, contributor)
Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire (Keith Waldrop, trans.)
Resurrection of the Body, by Caroline Walker Bynum
The Bible in English, by David Daniell
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art & Science, by Lorraine Daston (ed.)
Wild Health, by Cindy Engel
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, by Ellen Meloy
The End of the Wild, by Stephen M. Meyer
suggested listening (Pam Rehm, contributor)
The Letting Go , Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Dell'Universo Assente, Luciano Cilio
Goodnight Nobody
, Julie Doiron
Dolmen Music, Meredith Monk
What the Toll Tells , Two Gallants
01.04.07
suggested reading (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
The Fire: Collected Essays, by Robin Blaser
The Holy Forest, by Robin Blaser
God and the Welfare State, by Lew Daly
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
Riding Westward, by Carl Phillips
suggested listening (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
The Rosary Sonatas, H.I.F. Biber (Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr perf.)
Etudes for Piano, Vol. 1, 1-10, Philip Glass
In Europe, Billy Harper Quintet
In the Absence of the Truth, Isis
The Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett
Radiance, Keith Jarrett
Veedon Fleece, Van Morrison
Ys, Joanna Newsom
The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, Pelican
All-Night Vigil, Sergei Rachmaninoff (Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perf.)
Moving Pictures, Rush
Close to the Edge, Yes
suggested viewing (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
Battlestar Galactica, Season 2.0
Howl's Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki
Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis
The Wire, Seasons 3 & 4
09.12.06
suggested reading (Graham Foust, contributor)
The View from the Gazebo, poems by Marianne Boruch
Name, poems by Alan Davies
The Cloud of Knowable Things, poems by Elaine Equi
Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, essays by Alan Gilbert
Last Chance for Eden, essays/reviews by Christopher Knight
Adventures, poems by Lauren Levin
Each Real Bird, poems by Shannon Tharp
The Providings, poems by Carl Thayler
Selected Poems, by Jay Wright
suggested listening (Graham Foust, contributor)
The Greatest, Cat Power
Sonomondo, Mark Dresser and Frances-Marie Uitti
Love & Theft, Bob Dylan
Back to the Barrooms, Merle Haggard
Customs, Joel R.L. Phelps
His Hands, Candi Staton
Goodbye Babylon, Various Artists
09.12.06
suggested reading (Sam Ward, contributor)
No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-1995, by Ken Edwards (Shearsman)
Cennau's Bell: Poems 1980-2001, by Graham Hartill (The Collective Press)
A Sinner Saved by Grace, poems by Michael Haslam (Arc)
Collected Poems, by Lynette Roberts (Carcanet)
Sonata, poems by Maurice Scully (Reality Street)
Le Fanu's Ghost, poems by Gavin Selerie (Five Seasons Press)
Crosses: Poems 1993-1998, by John Taggart (Stop Press)
There Are Words: Collected Poems, by Gael Turnbull (Shearsman)
suggested listening (Sam Ward, contributor)
Sweet Earth Flying CD, Marion Brown
Interstellar Space CD, John Coltrane
The Lost Takoma Sessions CD, Mark Fosson
O Magnum Mysterium: Masses of Josquin, Finck, Ockeghem, Gombert, Burmel, Isaac and Dufay 4-CDs, Clytus Gottwald with the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart
Welsh Rare Beat CD, v/a
Adieu Little Man LP, Frank Wright and Muhammad Ali
06.18.06
suggested reading (Joseph Massey, contributor)
Platinum Blonde, poems by Michael Carr
The Path to the Sea, poems by Thomas A. Clark
Deviant Propulsions, poems by C.A. Conrad
United States, poems by Dan Featherston
You Being You by Proxy, poems by Justin Marks
Birds for Example, poems by Jess Mynes
Steam, poems by Sandra Simonds
Here's to You, collaborative poems by Anthony Robinson & Andrew Mister
February, poems by Aaron Tieger
suggested listening (Joseph Massey, contributor)
The Torture Papers CD, Army of the Pharaohs
Black Ships Ate the Sky CD, Current 93
Fishscale CD, Ghostface Killah
Ringleader of the Tormentors CD, Morrissey
03.29.06
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
The Goldfinches of Baghdad, poems by Robert Adamson
Vectors and Smoothable Curves, essays by William Bronk
In Search of a Lost Ladino, Marcel Cohen
A Critical Cinema 5, interviews by Scott MacDonald
Depth Theology, poems by Peter O'Leary
Invisible Green, essays byDonald Revell
The End of Rude Handles, poem by Jen Tynes
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
New York Is Now! LP, Ornette Coleman
Allies CD, Fred Frith
Time Lines
CD, Andrew Hill
Folkloriko
CD, Susie Ibarra
Too Tall to Hide
CD, Halloween, Alaska
Anthology
CDs, Nina Simone
At the Mountain of Madness CDs , John Zorn/Electric Masada
12.30.05
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
The Little Door Slides Back, poems by Jeff Clark
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord
Somehow, poems by Burt Kimmelman
Bramble, poems by Joseph Massey
Daode Jing, translated by Thomas Meyer
Small Works, poems by Pam Rehm
The Real Subject: Queries And Conjectures Of Jacob Delafon : With Sample Poems, by Keith Waldrop
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having CD, Atmosphere
The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions CDs, Max Roach
Deaf + Dear
CD, Roh Delikat
Charles Tolliver & His All-Stars LP, Charles Tolliver
09.20.05
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
As I Lay Dying, fiction by William Faulkner
An Assembly, poems by Norman Finkelstein
Undanceable, poems by Merrill Gilfillan
A Mystical Theology of the Limbic Fissure, poems by Peter O'Leary
Sculpting in Time, prose by Andrey Tarkovsky
A Wild Perfection: the Selected Letters of James Wright, by James Wright
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Antlers CD, Bastro
Who's Your New Professor? CD, Sam Prekop
Memories Fade CD, Victory at Sea
Of Love & Peace CD, Larry Young
06.12.05
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Panegyric, autobiography by Guy DeBord
Powers: Track Volume III, poem by Norman Finkelstein
Uncertain Poetries, essays by Michael Heller
My First Painting will be "The Accuser", poems by Philip Jenks
RADI OS, poems by Ronald Johnson
Complete Writings 1959-1975, Donald Judd
Eureka Slough, poems by Joseph Massey
Often Capital, poems by Jennifer Moxley
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
B Sides & Rarities CDs, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Evens CD, The Evens
Georgia Hard CD, Robbie Fulks
Passing Ships CD, Andrew Hill
03.16.05
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Revelations, photographs & ephemera by Diane Arbus
Night Lights, poems by Jane Augustine
Leave the Room to Itself, poems by Graham Foust
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Fast Carts, Danger, Fire, & Knives CDEP, Aesop Rock
Complete Blue Note Recordings of Elvin Jones CDs, Elvin Jones (thanks PBNY)
Hammers & Strings CD, Kevin McKendree
Sun Kil Moon CD, Sun Kil Moon
11.27.04
suggested favorite things (Kimberley Yurkiewicz, contributor)
damien rice's "the blower’s daughter": perhaps the prettiest song ever sung.
the twin cities: lunalux + love-cars = too good.
art: really, all of it.
being married: incredible and lov-er-ly.
living in brooklyn: it's so good to be back.
paper-with-a-capital-p: letters, letters, letters. (!)
the holidays: all that yummy shine & sparkle.
donna kasbohm and dan hopman: thank god(s).
nieces & nephews: how can they possibly be so cutie cute cute?
you: and anyone else interested in anything like this. and anyone who has ever done anything cool and inspired enough to be part of it. spread the word.
suggested reading (Zach Barocas, contributor)
How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, by John Fahey
Aversions, poems by Devin Johnston
Kitaj: Pictures and Converstions, by Julián Ríos
suggested listening (Zach Barocas, contributor)
Open EP, Channels
City Limits CD, Dujeous
Rawar Style CD, the Eternals
A Guess at the Riddle CD, David Grubbs
Shake the Sheets CD, Ted Leo + The Pharmacists
Glass Floor CD, Maritime
Real Gone CD, Tom Waits
08.10.04
suggested reading (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
Watership Down, by Richard Adams (HarperPerennial)
Spell, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Ahsahta)
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, by Chester Brown (Drawn & Quarterly)
Nine, by Theodore Enslin (National Poetry Foundation)
Lyrical Interference, by Norman Finkelstein (Spuyten Duyvil)
Idoru, by William Gibson (Penguin)
Some Mariners, by Stacy Syzmaszek (EtherDome)
Pastorelles, by John Taggart (Flood Editions)
Surfaces, by John Tipton (Flood Editions)
suggested listening (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
Umber, Bitch Magnet (The Communion Label)
String Quartets opus 20, Franz Josef Haydn [Quatuor Mosaïques] (Astrée)
Mass in C Minor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [ Collegium Cartusianum] (Virgin Veritas)
Power, Corruption, & Lies, New Order (Qwest)
Alina, Arvo Pärt (ECM)
Regatta de Blanc, The Police (A&M)
Logic Will Break Your Heart, The Stills (Vice)
5, Town & Country (Thrill Jockey)
A Ghost Is Born, Wilco (Nonesuch)
On the Beach, Neil Young (Reprise)
suggested viewing (Peter O'Leary, contributor)
Babylon 5, seasons 1, 2, & 3
Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki, dir. (Miramax)
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, dir. (Miramax)
Oedipus Rex, Pier Paolo Pasolini, dir. (Water Bearer Films)
06.16.04
suggested reading (Jesse Pires, contributor)
The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim
Gilligan's Wake, by Tom Carson
Lipstick Traces, by Greil Marcus
Essential Cinema, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Let's Put the Future Behind Us, by Jack Womack
suggested listening (Jesse Pires, contributor)
To Each..., A Certain Ratio
Inventions and Dimensions, Herbie Hancock
Louden Up, Now, !!!
Black Unity, Pharoah Sanders
Young Liars EP, TV on the Radio
05.10.04
suggested reading (Drew Kunz, contributor)
The Arab Apocalypse, by Etel Adnan
Notebooks 1956-1978, by Danielle Collobert
By the Sound, by Edward Dorn
Horizons: The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia, by Dick Higgins
A Test of Solitude, by Emmanuel Hocquard
Household Mechanics, by Sarah Mangold
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, by Todd May
Wet, by Mira Schor
Euclid Shudders, by Mark Tardi
the false sun recordings, by James Wagner
"A", by Louis Zukofsky
suggested listening (Drew Kunz, contributor)
Talkie Walkie, Air
More Nipples, The Peter Brötzmann Sextet/Quartet
La maison de mon rêve, Coco Rosie
Troglodyte's Delight, Deep Listening Band
Kyema, Intermediate States, Elaine Radique
Come September, Arundhati Roy w/ Howard Zinn
03.23.04
suggested reading (Devin Johnston, contributor)
Inside Out: An Autobiography, by Robert Adamson
Music & Suicide, by Jeff Clark
Fathom, by Andrew Joron
02.12.04
suggested reading (Jon Curley, contributor)
"I AM": The Selected Poetry of John Clare, by John Clare/edited by Jonathan Bate
Gone, poems by Fanny Howe
The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word & Life, by Fanny Howe
The Midnight, by Susan Howe
Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics, by David Levi-Strauss
08.01.03
suggested reading
A Tragic Honesty: the Life and Work of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey
Four Quartets, poems by T.S. Eliot
Their Ancient Glittering Eyes, by Donald Hall
The Garden in the Machine, by Scott MacDonald
The Last Gentleman, by Walker Percy
suggested listening
The Complete Imperial Sessions CDs, Sonny Criss
Right for the Time CD, Waylon Jennings
Gerry Mulligan Songbook CD, Gerry Mulligan
Jazz Advance CD, Cecil Taylor
Soul Journey CD, Gillian Welch
06.01.03
suggested reading
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
Three Interviews 2000|01, Jean-Luc Godard
The Daylight Moon, poems by Les Murray
The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
The Easter Parade, by Richard Yates
suggested listening
Looks at the Bird CD, Brokeback
Crappin' You Negative CD, Grifters
State of the Tenor CDs, Joe Henderson
The Omega Man LP, Art Pepper
Song of Songs CD, Woody Shaw
04.01.03
suggested reading
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, by Wendell Berry
Film at Wit's End, by Stan Brakhage
Sadly, poems by William Fuller
Exigent Futures, poems by Michael Heller
Anarchy, poems by Mark Scroggins
suggested listening
Libra/Another Earth CD, Gary Bartz
Feast of Wire CD, Calexico
Dealin' LP, Richard Davis
Heavy!!! CD, Booker Ervin
Hearts of Oak CD, Ted Leo/Pharmacists
02.01.03
suggested reading
On Judaism, by Martin Buber
LVNG 10: Translations, edited by Joel Felix, Michael O'Leary, & Peter O'Leary
On Book Design, by Richard Hendel
Collected Writings of Michael Snow, by Michael Snow
Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film, edited by Charles Warren
suggested listening
Duet in Detroit CD, Roy Brooks
Let's Kill Saturday Night CD, Robbie Fulks
Blues & Roots CD, Charles Mingus
All That You Can't Leave Behind CD, U2
Freedom Suite CD, David S. Ware Quintet
suggested anniversarial celebrants
Suzanne McCoy & David Fitschen
12.17.02
suggested reading
Typologia, by Frederic W. Goudy
Nervous Songs, poems by Paul Hoover
The Secret Room, poems by James Laughlin
Gutenberg, by John Man
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, by Breece D'J Pancake
suggested listening
Red Medicine CD, Fugazi
Breaking Point CD, Freddie Hubbard
Some Other Stuff CD, Grachan Moncur
The Procrastinator CD, Lee Morgan
Bemsha Swing CDs, Woody Shaw
11.04.02
suggested reading
New & Selected Essays, by Denise Levertov
The Man with a Shattered World, study by A.R. Luria
Collected Poems, by Frank O'Hara
To Give It Up, poems by Pam Rehm
A Palpable Elysium, photographs & reminiscences by Jonathan Williams
suggested listening
Touching CD, Paul Bley Trio
100 Flowers Bloom CDs, Gang of Four
Perfecting Loneliness CD, Jets to Brazil
Rise CD, Kim Richey
Unit Structures CD, Cecil Taylor
10.04.02
suggested reading
Columns, poems by Norman Finkelstein
In Search of Light: the Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow 1938-1961, Edward R. Murrow
Signposts in a Strange Land, essays by Walker Percy
Nobody's Fool, fiction by Richard Russo
Prepositions, essays by Louis Zukofsky
suggested listening
Demolition CD, Ryan Adams
The Milestone Years CDs, Joe Henderson
In the Vernacular: the Music of John Carter CD, Francois Houle 5
Tortoise LP, Tortoise
Mermaid Avenue CD,Wilco & Billy Bragg
suggested (relatively) newborn baby
Rafael Kedrowski Barocas
09.01.02
suggested reading
Preoccupations, essays by Seamus Heaney
Telepathy, poems by Devin Johnston
Septet for the End of Time, poems by Nathaniel Mackey
Saving Bonds, poems by Pam Rehm
Mohawk, fiction by Richard Russo
suggested listening
Piano Sonatas Op. 111 & Op. 10 No. 1 CD, Ludwig Van Beethoven (Claudio Arrau performing)
Bass on Top CD, Paul Chambers
The Last Waltz CDs, Bill Evans
Life Cycle LP, Dave Holland
Dose CD,Latin Playboys
07.24.02
suggested reading
Killing Rage, Eamon Collins
Finer Points in the Spacing and Arrangement of Type, by Geoffrey Dowding
Winter [Mirror], poems by Paul Hoover
The Fleuron Anthology, edited by Francis Meynell
Letter Forms, by Stanley Morison
suggested listening
Sing the Troubled Beast CD, Bastro
Thirteen Years CD, Alejandro Escovedo
Rickets & Scurvy CD, David Grubbs
Pirates LP, Ricky Lee Jones
Sam Prekop LP, Sam Prekop
suggested matrimonial celebrants
Alicia Cohen & Tom Fisher
06.23.02
suggested reading
Collected Short Poems, Hayden Carruth
Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick Publishers, by Robert Dana
Economics, stories by Fanny Howe
Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness, by Peter O'Leary
Empire Falls, fiction by Richard Russo
suggested listening
Hi-Fly CD, Jaki Byard
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs CD, Chick Corea
Couples in Trouble CD, Robbie Fulks
Jealous God CD, Nathan Larson
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD, Wilco
suggested matrimonial celebrants
Meghan Sutherland & Brian Price
05.23.02
suggested reading
A Short History of the Printed Word, by Warren Chappell
The Annals of Chile, poems by Paul Muldoon
The Granite Pail, selected poems by Lorine Niedecker
Movie Wars, by Jonathan Rosenbaum
The Space of Half an Hour, poems by Keith Waldrop
suggested listening
Mugic CD, Certainly, Sir
Tones for Joan's Bones LP, Chick Corea
Beyond the Rain LP, Chico Freeman
Glimmer CD, Kim Richey
Contrasts LP, Larry Young.
04.22.02
suggested reading
In the Builded Place, poems by Michael Heller
The Changes/Orders/Becomings, poems by Peyton Houston
Echoes Inside the Labyrinth, poems by Thomas McGrath
Light While There Is Light: An American History, fictional autobigraphy by Keith Waldrop
A Short History of the Shadow, poems by Charles Wright
suggested listening
Band & Voices: A New Perspective CD, Donald Byrd
Symphony No. 2 CD, Charles Ives (Leonard Bernstein conducting)
All Mod Cons CD, the Jam
Cup of Loneliness CDs, George Jones
New Soil CD, Jackie McLean
03.28.02
suggested reading
Living Root: A Memoir, autobiography by Michael Heller
A Homemade World, criticism by Hugh Kenner
Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems, by Tom Pickard
Amulet, poems by Carl Rakosi
Liars in Love, stories by Richard Yates
suggested listening
Every Night Fight for Your Life CD, Chris Mills
Solo Monk CD,Thelonious Monk
East Broadway Rundown LP, Sonny Rollins
Lula Divinia CD, Shiner
Unity CD, Larry Young
03.07.02
suggested reading
Rave, poems by Olga Broumas
A Fan's Notes, fiction by Frederick Exley
The Book of Nightmares, poem by Galway Kinnell
Two Cities: a Love Story, fiction by John Edgar Wideman
Reasons for Knocking at An Empty House, essays/notes by Bill Viola
suggested listening
Home Late CD, Bellwether
Out to Lunch CD, Eric Dolphy
Act Five, Scene One CD, David Grubbs
Thank You for Telling Me What I Already Know CD, Love-Cars
Summerteeth CD, Wilco
02.01.02
suggested reading
Adultery & Other Choices, stories by Andre Dubus
Gratitude, poems by Sam Hamill
Collected Poems, George Oppen
Hoop Roots, essays by John Edgar Wideman
Quarter Notes: Improvisations & Interviews, by Charles Wright
suggested listening
And No More Shall We Part CD, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Eternals CD, The Eternals
Retrograde CD, Friends of Dean Martinez
Idle Moments CD, Grant Green
Blackstone Legacy LP, Woody Shaw
suggested matrimonial celebrants
Suzanne McCoy & David Fitschen
01.01.02
suggested reading
Circles of Confusion, essays, mostly on photography & film, by Hollis Frampton
Light Up the Cave, essays by Denise Levertov
He Sleeps, fiction by Reginald McKnight
Reasons for Moving, poems by Mark Strand
Negative Blue, poems by Charles Wright
suggested listening
Gula Matari LP, Quincy Jones
New Favorite CD, Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alone in San Francisco CD, Thelonius Monk
Being There CD, Wilco
Conflict LP, Jimmy Woods Sextet
12.01.01
suggested reading
The Sleeping Beauty, poem by Hayden Carruth
Every Force Evolves a Form : Twenty Essays, Guy Davenport
Doors of Perception, essays on typography & printing by Harry Duncan
Collected Poems, Paul Goodman
Willard Gibbs: American Genius, biography by Muriel Rukeyser
suggested listening
Gold CD, Ryan Adams
The Argument LP, Fugazi
Straight Life CD, Freddie Hubbard
Anodyne CD, Uncle Tupelo
Time (The Revelator) CD, Gillian Welch
11.01.01
suggested reading
Reluctantly, autobiographical essays by Hayden Carruth
Two-Way Mirror Power, selected essays & interviews by Dan Graham
Watchfulness, poems by Peter O'Leary
Democracy in America, Vol. 1, Alexis de Toqueville
Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987, Charles Wright
suggested listening
Field Recordings from the Cook County Water Table CD, Brokeback
Waltzie CD EP, Caitlin Cary
Brown Sugar CD, D'Angelo
Kiss it Goodbye CD, Chris Mills
The Egg CD, Shiner
10.01.01
suggested reading
Doctor Jazz, poems by Hayden Carruth
Finding a Girl in America, stories by Andre Dubus
Gone to Earth, poems by Pam Rehm
The Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, Vol. 2, edited by Jane Bannard Greene & M.D. Herter Norton
The Life of Poetry, by Muriel Rukeyser
suggested listening
Canadian Amp CD EP, Neko Case
The Tyranny of Distance LP, Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Mí Son CD, Los Super Seven & Rick Treviño
Viewfinder LP, Pullman
Sonny Rollins Brass/Sonny Rollins Trio LP, Sonny Rollins
suggested b&w video viewing
A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson
Vietnam: In the Year of the Pig, Emile De Antonio
Lenny, Bob Fosse
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch
Hud, Martin Ritt
suggested anniversarial celebrants
Kim Coletta & Bill Barbot
Janet Morgan & J. Robbins
suggested matrimonial celebrants
Sheila Shidnia & Jason Ian Moriber
9.01.01
suggested reading
Home Movies & Other Necessary Fictions, essays & scripts by Michelle Citron
Geography of the Imagination, essays by Guy Davenport
Selected Stories, by Andre Dubus
First Diasporist Manifesto, art manifesto by R.B. Kitaj
Letter to an Imaginary Friend, poem by Thom McGrath
Lancelot, fiction by Walker Percy
suggested listening
Identikit CD, Burning Airlines
Even my Sure Things Fall Through CD, Calexico
Complete Riverside Recordings of Bill Evans LPs, Bill Evans
The Thicket LP, David Grubbs
The Spectacular Sadness of... CD, Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys
Understanding LP, John Patton
suggested video viewing
Besieged, Bernardo Bertolucci
Husbands, John Cassavetes
Salesman, Albert & David Maysles
The Swimmer, Frank Perry
My Sister Eileen (1955), Richard Quine
Odds Against Tomorrow, Robert Wise
suggested (relatively) newborn babies
Nicholas Charles Barbot
Yates Walter McKendree
Gabriel O'Leary