What I’m Reading

CURRENTLY READING:

Horse Crazy by Gary Indiana

PREVIOUSLY:

The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
People Collide by Isle McElroy
Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana
Political Fictions by Joan Didion
Try by Dennis Cooper
Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
After Kathy Acker by Chris Kraus
Fair Play by Tove Jansson
God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Keats’ Odes: A Lover’s Discourse by Anahid Neressian
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
Autoportrait by Jesse Ball
Loudermilk by Lucy Ives
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
The Girl from the Other Side, Book 1 by Nagabe
Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
Ghost Image by Hervé Guibert
Stemmy Things by Imogen Xtian Smith
Miami by Joan Didion
Ararat by Louise Gluck
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse

2022

Water I Won’t Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Float by Anne Carson
Some Animal by Ely Shipley
Crush by Richard Siken
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc
A Queen in Bucks County by Kay Gabriel
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (reread)
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Participation by Anna Moschovakis
Narrow Rooms by James Purdy
The Terrible We by Cameron Awkward-Rich
The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
Henry and June by Anaïs Nin
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Life is Everywhere by Lucy Ives
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Stay True by Hua Hsu
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Divorcing by Susan Taubes
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
The Vagabond by Colette
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
Happening by Annie Ernaux
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body by Megan Milks
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
Sex Is As Sex Does by Paisley Currah
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
Gossip Girl Fan Novella by Charlie Markbreiter
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Journal by Katherine Mansfield
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (reread)
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
Suite Vénitienne by Sophie Calle
The Arena of the Unwell by Liam Konemann
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
Love’s Work by Gillian Rose
Little Rabbit By Alyssa Songsiridej
Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc
Democracy by Joan Didion
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (reread)
Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn
Berlin’s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
Memorial by Alice Oswald
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Panpocalypse by Carley Moore
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
John by Annie Baker (reread)
X by Davey Davis
Body Awareness by Annie Baker
Skyland by Andrew Durbin
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye
Normal People by Sally Rooney (reread)
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman
Fire Island by Jack Parlett
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Carrie by Stephen King (reread)
Nevada by Imogen Binnie (reread)
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Refuse to be Done by Matt Bell
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm
Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Saint Sebastian’s Abyss by Mark Haber
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Side Affects by Hil Malatino
The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
Weight of the Earth by David Wojnarowicz
The Men by Sandra Newman
The Doloriad by Missouri Williams
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Cinema Stories by Alexander Kluge
The Power by Naomi Alderman (reread)
N.B. by Charlotte Shane
Written On the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Afterland by Lauren Beukes
The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by Maria Gainza
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits
They by Kay Dick
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (reread)
A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
Address Book by Sophie Calle
Devil House by John Darnielle
MacArthur Park by Andrew Durbin
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Swamp Thing Vol. 2 by Alan Moore
Trans Girl Suicide Museum by Hannah Baer
Bee Reaved by Dodie Bellamy
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
The Black Emerald by Jeanne Thornton
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Lust by Susan Minot
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Trash by Dorothy Allison
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (reread)
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
The Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
A Dialogue on Love by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

2021

Bear by Marian Engel
Suicide by Édouard Levé
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (reread)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Group by Mary McCarthy
A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric Larocca
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Family & Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg
The Appointment by Katharina Volckmer
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
The Trees by Percival Everett
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Plague by Albert Camus
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (reread)
Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Telephone by Percival Everett
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
Awake by Harald Voetmann
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
The Things We’ve Seen by Agustín Fernández Mallo
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
The Literary Conference by César Aira
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
G. by John Berger
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
The Drunkard by Liu Yichang
Dissipatio H.G. by Guido Morselli
Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán
Natural History by Carlos Fonseca
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers
Nervous System by Lina Meruane
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (reread)
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Years by Annie Ernaux
10:04 by Ben Lerner (reread)
After Delores by Sarah Schulman
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Tiny Pieces of Skull by Roz Kaveney
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
October Child by Linda Boström Knausgård
Marshlands by André Gide
The Pastel City by M. John Harrison
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin (reread)
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Surrender by Veronica Esposito
A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
The Past by Tessa Hadley
Among the Hedges by Sara Mesa
The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy
A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa
An Archive of Feelings by Ann Cvetkovich
From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
The Gathering by Anne Enright
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Children of Men by P.D. James
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Index Cards by Moyra Davey
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Darryl by Jackie Ess
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
Luster by Raven Leilani
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alex Nemerov
Atlantic Hotel by João Gilberto Noll
Vanishing Point by David Markson
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Crash by J.G. Ballard
This is Not a Novel by David Markson
Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (reread)
That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
Libra by Don Delillo
The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck
Like by Ali Smith
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Darkmans by Nicola Barker
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck
The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis
Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
How to be a Good Girl by Jamie Hood
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
You Only Live Twice by Mike Hoolboom & Chase Joynt
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

PLAYS:

Herakles by Euripides
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
John by Annie Baker
The Flick by Annie Baker
Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
The Aliens by Annie Baker
Nocturama by Annie Baker
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
The Small by Anne Washburn
Rock ‘n Roll by Tom Stoppard
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
The Antipodes by Annie Baker
Red by John Logan
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner