GENIUSES, CLOWNS, DEVILS, AND ANGELS
Some books and music to spend your time with:
(Friends and/or idols are among this group)
- Museums and Women (stories), John Updike, Vintage, 1971
- The City of Your Final Destination (novel), Peter Cameron, FSG, 2002
- Olive Kitteridge (novel), Elizabeth Strout, Random House, 2008
- Cream of Kohlrabi (stories), Floyd Skloot, Tupelo Press, 2011; and Summer Blue (novel), Story Line Press, 1994
- This New and Poisonous Air (stories), BOA Editions, 2011, and The White Forest (novel), Adam McOmber, Touchstone, 2012
- Cora Fry and Cora Fry's Pillowbook (novels-in-poems), Rosellen Brown, FSG (1994)
- Luminarium (novel), Alex Shakar, SoHo press, 2011
- Live Through This (memoir), Debra Gwartney, Mariner Books, 2009
- The World of a Few Minutes Ago (stories), Jack Driscoll, Wayne State University Press, 2012
- One Dog Happy (stories), Molly McNett, University of Iowa Press, 2008
- In Persuasion Nation (stories), The Tenth of December (stories), George Saunders, Riverhead Books, 2006, and Random House, 2013, respectively
- Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (literary criticism), Anthony Ellis, Ashgate Books, 2009
- Arcadia (novel) and Delicate Edible Birds (story collection), Lauren Groff, 2012 & 2012.
- Lord of Misrule (novel), Jaimy Gordon, Vintage Contemporaries, 2010
- Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death (nonfiction), Jim Frederick, Random House, 2010
- The Corrections (novel) and Farther Away (essays), Jonathan Franzen, FSG, 2001 & 2012 respectively
- Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider (memoir), Suzanne Clores, Conari Press, 2000 (Kindle 2011)
- Memory Sickness (short stories), Phong Nguyen, Elixir Press, 2011
- The Coast of Chicago (stories), Stuart Dybek, Picador (paper), 2004
- Prep and American Wife (novels), Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, 2005 & 2009
- Wilderness Tips (stories), Margaret Atwood, Anchor 1998 (British version, 1991)
- The Borrower (novel), Rebecca Makkai, Vintage 2011
- At Risk (stories), Amina Gautier, University of Georgia Press, 2011
- Answering the Ruins (poetry collection), Gregory Fraser, Northwestern University Press, 2009 and Strange Pieta, Texas Tech Press, 2003.
- Twilight of the Superheroes (stories), Deborah Eisenberg, Picador, 2006
- American Salvage (stories), Bonnie Jo Campbell, Norton, 2009 (originally with Wayne State University Press).
- Autobiography of Red (poem-novel), Anne Carson, Vintage, 1999
- Austerlitz (novel), W.G. Sebald, Penguin, 2001
- The Longest Pregnancy (stories), Melissa Fraterrigo, Swallow's Tale Press, 2006
- Union Dues (novel), John Sayles; Little, Brown 1977. Paperback ed. 1979 (Pocket) & 2005 (Nation Books)
- Singer in the Rye (CD), J. B. Pariah, 1996
- In the Shadow of Our House (stories), Scott Blackwood, Southern Methodist University Press, 2001.
- White People (stories), Allan Gurganus, Vintage, 1990
- Making Faces, John Bullock, Ghost Road Press, 2008
- Cities in the Sea (stories), Maura Stanton, University of Michigan Press, 2005
- In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (novel), Tony Ardizzone, Picador, 2000
- A Relative Stranger (stories), Charles Baxter, Norton, 1990
- Angels Go Naked (novel), Cornelia Nixon, Counterpoint, 2000
- The Nature of Longing (stories), Alyce Miller, Norton, 1995
- My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow (stories), and Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked) (nonfiction), Steve Almond, Grove Press, 2003; Algonquin Books 2005 & 2004, Random House, 2008.
- Out Loud (stories), Anthony Varallo, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
- Lost in the Ivy (novel), Randy Richardson, PublishAmerica, 2005
- Exploding Chippewas (poetry collection), Mark Turcotte, Northwestern University Press, 2002
- Cue Lazarus (poetry), Carl Marcum, University of Arizona Press, 2001
- How Proust Can Change Your Life (nonfiction), Alain de Botton, Vintage, 1998
- Free Burning (novel), Bayo Ojikutu, Three Rivers Press, 2006
- The Blue Flower (novel), Penelope Fitzgerald, Mariner Books, 1997
- The Countess (novel), Rebecca Johns, Crown, 2011.
- Open Secrets (stories), Alice Munro, Vintage, 1995 (all of her books are phenomenal - Runaway, The Moons of Jupiter, Dear Life, etc.)
- Taw and Scrawny (CDs), Dave Ramont, 2009 and 2000
- Waiting Room and Sometimes Nothing (CDs), 200?, Dave Sills
- Flyover States and Eye to Eye (novels), Grace Grant and PJ MacAllister & Grace Carol, Red Dress Ink, 2005 & 2008
- Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, Miles Harvey, Random House, 2008
- Paris Stories (stories), Mavis Gallant, New York Review of Books Classics, 2002.
- Good Money After Bad (novel), Donald G. Evans, Atomic Quill Press, 2007
- A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw (stories), Christie Hodgen, University of Massachusetts Press, 2001
- Maybe Baby (novel), Tenaya Darlington, Back Bay Books, 2004
- Star in the Eye (poetry collection), James Shea, Fence Books, 2008
- Experience (memoir), Martin Amis, Vintage, 2000
- Dalva (novel), Jim Harrison, Washington Square Press, 1988
- Atonement (novel), Ian McEwan, Anchor, 2001