table of contents

posted 28.6.08 by nnyhav

the story so far, chronicling three five years, roughly:

initialization (chapbookery)

07.05, 08.05: drawer pulls
08.05: Borges; Golomb ruler conjecture
09.05: Nabokov, Edmund Wilson; Symons' Corvo; Mackenzie via Merton pere et fils
10.05: Nabokov; Musil, The Man without Qualities; Lispector, The Hour of the Star

(from here on in or out, inclusion of title means more than summary, otherwise just author and assessment +/- [latter may be relative to others by author])

11.05: Pessoa, The Education of the Stoic; RLStevenson, Weir of Hermiston; Gruša, The Questionnaire; + Broch, Roubaud (Oulipo, Nabokov [the original The Original of Laura post])
12.05: We like short shorts (+ W.S.Merwin, Manganelli, Kawabata); chess art; Empson's poetics; Best reads of '05: Coetzee's Disgrace, MBradbury's To the Hermitage, + Laxness, Lampedusa, Rushdie, Stoppard, G.Sorrentino, H.Mathews, Robbe-Grillet, Barth, Mitchell (descending order)

reading journal:
poets' prose: 02.06 Guest, 03.06 + Creeley, 04.06 / Ashbery&Schuyler; 12.06 + Milosz; 03.07 Bishop; 06.07 Merwin
playin' poet: 01.06 approximately, 03.06; 08.06 archy; 02.07 twitterfic & twitterpomes; 06.07 dickin' with Dickerson
Nabokov-related: passim
chess: ibid

01.06: Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina; EastEuroLit: + Hemon[2], Kiŝ, Hrabal[3], Škvorecký, Voinovich, Zivkovic / Ugresic - Gombrowicz[2]; + Roussel, The Poetic Edda, Cyril Connolly / Cortázar - Peter Dale
02:06: Burrow on Burgess; + Broch, Konwicki, Unt / Gospodinov - Pinget
03.06: Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box; + Goytisolo, Brelich, Ogai Mori, Škvorecký, Edmund Wilson
04.06: Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov; bit'o'Bakhtin; + Keegan, Rorty / Szewc
05.06: Walter Benjamin on quotation; + Soseki, Salvayre, Vila-Matas, Michaux, Supervielle / Voinovich, Shklovsky
06.06: + Bénabou, GSorrentino, M. John Harrison, Schmidt / Eco, Michaux - Chirico, Salvayre
07.06: MoMA's Dada; + Pinget, Bernhard, Peter Weiss, M.John Harrison, Pekić, Pessoa, Henry Green, Braschi, Svevo, Sarraute
08.06: + Gombrowicz, Bolaño, Roubaud, Pinget, Ficowski, GSorrentino
09.06: Kenzaburō Ōe, A Quiet Life; Vonnegut on Celine; + Laxness, Kawabata, Kertész, CSimon, Costantini, Ackroyd, Bernhard / Graves - Borges, Banville
10.06: + Kertész, Krasznahorkai, Bulgakov, Banville / Butor, Athanasius Kircher - Pater
11.06: Donner, The King: Chess Pieces; José Saer, The Witness; + Themerson, Heaney, Borowski, Duras / Nooteboom
12.06: Pynchon, Against the Day; Rytkheu, A Dream in Polar Fog; '06 revue; + WmMorris, Duras, Tanizaki, Elkin / Tanizaki2, Brodsky - Coetzee
01.07: Jerzy Ficowski, Regions of the Great Heresy; Pinget, Between Fantoine and Agapa; + Platonov, Crowley / Jos. Joubert
02.07: Pinget, That Voice; Goytisolo, The Marx Family Saga; Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires; Bolaño, Amulet; Lustig, Montale / Ozick - Hofmannsthal, Flaubert, Schopenhauer, Gass
03.07: J.G.Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur; Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories; bookchat reprise + Cabrera Infante; + Schwarz-Bart, / Bénabou, Banville
04.07: Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives; Carlos Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana; - Endo, Sam Johnson
05.07: Cărtărescu, Nostalgia; Themerson, Tom Harris; + Laxness, Bashō, Shalamov, Seferis, Cavafy, Vendler - Brecht
06.07: + Crowley, Kingsley Amis, Stoppard, Murdoch, Jouet / Shteyngart
07.07: Tagore, Gora; John Williams, Stoner; Kiŝ, Hourglass; NabStudies#10; + A Cheng, W.F.Hermans, Karl Shapiro / Bernhard, Platonov
08.07: David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress; unread top 10; + Carpentier, Kiš, Simon, Greene, Lispector / Flann O'Brien - Sorrentino
09.07: Beckett, Nohow On; Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant; Borislav Pekić, The Time of Miracles; dissing Dennett; + Gombrowicz, Achebe, Danticat, Crowley / Fénéon, Helen Gardner
10.07: the Walter Benjamin project; + Aira, Akutagawa, Themerson, Butor - Vila-Matas
11.07: + Gershom Scholem, Faulkner / Barthelme, Naipaul, M. John Harrison, The Stuffed Owl
12.07: + Carpentier, Queneau, J.G.Farrell, Rouaud / Gombrowicz, Dostoevsky, Gracq, Rushdie
01.08: + Eggers, Pinget, Butor, Alan Bennett, Kharms, Marías, Octavia Butler, Lyndall Gordon on James / Donald Davidson, David Leavitt, Elkin, Rouaud
02.08: + Josipovici, Simon, Jarry, Piglia, Saramago, Kosztolányi, Broch / Bolaño, Kertész - Walser
03.08: Breton & Carpentier The Lost Steps (1 ea); The Original of Laura take two; metadata statspoof; + Joseph Roth, J.G.Farrell, Elkin / Laxness - Alberto Savinio
04.08: + Selimović, Naipaul, Nagai Kafu, Rabindranath Tagore bio / Krúdy, WCWilliams - Salvayre
05.08: + Mallarmé, Kertész, Fuentes, Gombrowicz, Anita Desai, Arno Schmidt - Erdös bio
06.08: + Hemon, Patrick White, Aira, Laxness, Queneau, Richard Hughes, Mutis, / Yourcenar, Ugrešić, Bernhard, Gospodinov, Ryū Murakami - Tatyana Tolstaya, Broch

Change of direction, change of format:
07.08: Mackinac infomercial; Flann O'Brien Keats & Chapman homage; Irony (a la New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs); B.S.Johnson's The Unfortunates review
08.08: pointer to LabLit short "Lab Report"
09.08: a flaw in "The Purloined Letter"; Plato's Cratylus meets Pale Fire; Wittgenstein's finance Tractatus
12.08: listing stuff read and to be read
01.09: exposure of a Scott McLemee title
02.09: gallimaufreadings, first Best Translated Book Awards and FTalphaville NY events
03.09: F.S.Fitzgerald, H.Heine travelog, V.H.Adair
04.09: J.Roubaud at Idlewild; Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide; on Lepore on Poe

Another swerve, fishtail:
06.09: catch-up postcard
07.09: yield curve dynamics
08.09: five years, that's all we've got
10.09: playin' poet again
11.09: The Original of Laura in the age of mechanical reproduction
12.09: turn of the decade; best reading H2.09 (Economou, Eliade, Makine)
01.10: Best Translated Book Awards longlist; on Kasparov on computers
02.10: Hamlet, BTBA and other reading
04.10: salmagundi
06.10: olla podrida