Fifty books for Cozen to read.

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He asked for 82, but I'm only listing 50. Inspired by the Donald Barthelme syllabus thread.

1. Abbott Abbott, Edwin: "Flatland"
2. Austen, Jane: "Emma"
3. Beckett, Samuel: "Collected Short Prose"
4. Berrigan, Ted: "On The Level Everyday"
5. Berrigan, Ted: "Train Ride"
6. Bénabou, Marcel: "Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books"
7. Cage, John: "Silence"
8. Cortázar, Julio: "Cronopios And Famas"
9. Creswell, J. & J. Hartley: "Teach Yourself Esperanto"
10. Darragh, Tina: "'on the corner' to 'off the corner'"
11. de Maistre, Xavier: "Voyage Around My Room"
12. Delany, Samuel: "The Motion Of Light In Water"
13. Delany, Samuel: "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue"
14. Dickinson, Emily: Poems
15. Federman, Raymond: "Double Or Nothing"
16. Fitzhugh, Louise: "Harriet The Spy"
17. Flaubert, Gustave: "The Dictionary Of Received Ideas"
18. Fowler, H.W.: "Modern English Language", 1st or 2nd ed.
19. Goldsmith, Kenneth: "No. 111, 2.7.93-10.20.90"
20. Grenier, Robert: "Sentences"
21. Hejinian, Lyn: "My Life"
22. Herriman, George: "Krazy Kat"
23. Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Poems
24. Joyce, James: "Finnegans Wake"
25. Juster, Norman: "The Phantom Tollbooth"
26. Kochalka, James: "Sketchbook Diaries"
27. Mac Low, Jackson: "Representative Works, 1938-1985"
28. Markson, David: "Wittgenstein's Mistress"
29. Mathews, Harry & Alastair Brotchie: "Oulipo Compendium"
30. McCloud, Scott: "Understanding Comics"
31. McPhee, John: "Oranges"
32. Orwell, George: "Collected Essays"
33. Orwell, George: "Down And Out In Paris And London"
34. Perec, Georges: "Species Of Spaces"
35. Perec, Georges: "W, or The Memory Of Childhood"
36. Queneau, Raymond: "Exercises En Style"
37. Retallack, Joan: "Errata 5uite"
38. Rothenberg, Jerome & Pierre Joris, eds.: "Poems For The Millennium"
39. Schulz, Charles: "Peanuts"
40. Silliman, Ron: "The New Sentence"
41. Silliman, Ron: "Tjanting"
42. Smullyan, Raymond: "Alice In Puzzle-Land"
43. Stein, Gertrude: "Tender Buttons"
44. Sterne, Laurence: "The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"
45. Stone, Jon & Michael Smollin: "The Monster At The End Of This Book"
46. University of Chicago Press Staff, "The Chicago Manual Of Style"
47. Wall, Larry & Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant, "Programming Perl"
48. Weber, Bob: "Saskatchewan History Along The Highway"
49. Wiener, Hannah: "Code Poems"
50. Wodehouse, P.G.: Any later work

I'm totally unhappy with this list, and I think in another 10 years I'll be able to make a much better list. But it's a start.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago) link

Sadly missing from that list: Cookbooks; history books; philosophy books. It needs more essays. It needs more math, and a good book on games.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

I might add more to the list as time passes.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 05:49 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, add more. Also: I'm on it.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

?? But your book's not out yet!

― the junefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

Manny farber 'negative space' is a must.

beckett 'mercier and camier'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

PF: all my best thoughts are entirely in other peoples' heads.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

I've read a few of these already.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder what book / author has been mentioned most on these boards? You could compile a top fifty by popularity based on the preferences of the good people of ILB.

Is there a tech-minded someone who has the knowhow?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 7 June 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

Mine will be too - one day.

― the pomefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago) link

Is this just a list of favorite books or is it something more specific. . .

― Moti Bahat, Monday, 7 June 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

Well, there were several "favorite" books that didn't make the list.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

I went out looking for these today and was very successful - I picked up Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 June 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

So what's the answer then? What is this list?

― Moti Bahat, Monday, 7 June 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

Russell Edson - The Tunnel
Marin Sorescu - Hands Behind My Back
Matt Rohrer - A Hummock in the Malookas

That's if somewhat surrealist poetry books I like qualify...

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 7 June 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

am reading no. 12 at the moment; what's 13?

i've read: less than ten, i think.

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 7 June 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

A book I'm fond of: Manhattan Transfer.

― the pinefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

This book is a list of books for Cozen to read. Though anyone else is welcome to read them. If he read them (and the 32 books I haven't added to the list yet because I haven't found them yet) then he would be, you know, different.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

#13 is two related essays about the Disneyfication of Times Square, one a personal history of Delany's very frequent trips to the movie houses to have sex with strangers, the other a theoretical essay about the importance and function of "dark corners" in cities and, among other things, the need for public places for people to have sex.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.cincypost.com/news/images/jeffpeanuts121599.gif

― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

Two books that nearly made the list:

Douglass, Jack: "Shut Up And Eat Your Snowshoes"
Feinberg, Davd: "Eighty-Sixed"

But, nah.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

51. might be Kenner, Hugh: "The Pound Era".

I hate it when I borrow books from friends or the library, I totally forget about them.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 7 June 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

I found it difficult to find these second-hand. I'm going to have to 'buy new'.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

Douglass, Jack: "Shut Up And Eat Your Snowshoes"

Yayyyyyy!!! Jack made my "5 books that define your personality" list. But not for snowshoes. For "The Neighbors Are Scaring My Wolf".

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

My Kenner was remaindered, surprisingly.

Cozen, what do you think of 'Cling To The Old Dreams', on ILM? (I am just pointing you towards it - you needn't bother writing on it, or whatever, if you don't want.)

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

'The Pound Era' but no Pound? or any of the others?

i kind of really want to find that other delany now.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

It is hard to read The Pound Era without then reading some Pound, so acutally listing Pound would be pointless.

But I might argue that it's better to be influenced by The Pound Era than actual Pound. Besides, I couldn't think of what Pound I'd actually have anyone read. Maybe "Cathay".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

Some of the books, such as #10, will be nearly impossible to find; some of the books, such as #19 and #20, are available online, but I encourage you to find a hard copy of #19. I encourage you to find a hard copy of #20 and then send it to me, since I've spent years looking for it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

I've finished the Queneau. That was good!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

You're welcome!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

i was reading The Pound Era last week and showering sometime the idea of Hugh Kenner as the fat kid stuck outside the clubhouse popped into my head: I'm not sure if it's actually otm or just my brain trying to think of things that look more-or-less passable, though

david markson sa: kenner whitewashed pound. i think that's a good word.

i laughed at his one mention of woolf (..i think, i only read a couple hundred pages of it..) being about eliot lowering himself in the company of such "slushy minds": things HAVE changed, haven't they?

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

actually the quality of this list is such that i'm really curious about all the ones that are books i don't know, and will probably investigate them further, so thank you

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:04 (twenty years ago) link

I picked up, from the library, today 'I, Etc.', 'Exercises in Style' (which I proceeded to read), 'Lost in the Funhouse' and 'The Rhetoric of Fiction'. See?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

Markson doesn't really explain what he means by "whitewashing", alas (and he comes off in that interview as something of an ass, which is also how "Springer's Progress" comes off).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

I have only read 11 of these => it's not as good as Barthelme's list.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

i've read less than i have of barthelme's => it's better!

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

Why HK outside the clubhouse?

I don't think he was fat. He was deaf, though.

― the finefox, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

the end of one of the chapters has a story about t.s. eliot and a cheese, and then a weirdly hard-to-follow sentence where this story about eliot and a cheese is narrated to (i think) wyndham lewis - ("don't worry, he doesn't come in HERE dressed as westminster abbey") - and the story of this response raises a laugh from pound. what's not acknowledged is that the person telling pound about telling lewis about eliot is kenner - i think - my citation for this is a result on google i chanced across whilst looking for something else - so.

similar: the bit where kenner tries to casually lead up to his explanation of 'papyrus', somewhere in the first couple chapters.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

I love that kind of lists. But still...what good are they? If I should make such a list it would be quite different. There will always be different opinions on what to read. When I read the different suggestions or lists on this page it hit me that nobody listed Franz Kafka(okay, one listed metamorphosis), Balzac, Fernando Pessoa or Dickens. That was just a brilliant writers that I think are very importent.

― Jens Drejer, Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

Dickens is nearly the antithesis of my list!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

For many years I avoided Dickens. I thought he was a stupid and boring socialist.
Then I read "Hard Times" some months ago and was very surprised. I was very amused, the stil was great and I found him to be both sharp and witty. I really want to read more of him.
But why was I so surprised? I spend weeks wondering about that question. I think it´s because we all think that we know Dickens, just because that we´ve all seen the movies. When I read Hard times I finally realised, that I had never read a Charles Dickens.
I admit, I do have a lot of prejudices about a lot of things and a lot of writers. Now I´m looking forward to having a lot enjoyable hours in the company of Dickens.

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

But I've read several books by Dickens. Every once in a great while I try to give him another chance (usually after reading the Orwell essay) and I'm always turned off.

(Keep in mind that I don't like fiction.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I´m not trying to say that everyone should like Dickens. You have given him a chance and thats fair. Of course people have different tastes. The above was more like an expression of my own thoughts and surprise, that I really liked him, which I had never thought I would.

― Jens Drejer (Jens Drejer), Sunday, 13 June 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link

a good book on games?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

Yup. A sort of "Understanding Comics" of games. I don't think Sid Sackson actually wrote such a book, although I'm stil tracking his books down to find out; I suspect Riener Knizia hasn't written such a book either. I'm suspecting that a game designer would have to write it but perhaps I'm wrong about that. Maybe there's one written by a video game person that I'm not aware of.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 June 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

I was more asking for one than about one.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Martin Amis wrote a book on early arcade video games!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 June 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

As I mentioned, I haven't found a good one yet! I'm still doing the research, but if you find one before me, let me know.

If you're just looking for games to play, check out Sid Sackson's books. The only one I've read is "A Gamut Of Games" and I've just gotten it, so I haven't played anything in it yet, but it comes recommended.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cozen, I have read Paterson's LANDING LIGHT.

Have you?

― the lightfox, Saturday, 17 July 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

what's wodehouse "later work"?

I've read a few stories about a mister mulliner (who entertains guests at a club with stories about his weird family), I never a read a jeeves-story.

― erik, Saturday, 17 July 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Well, apparently some of his first decade's worth of books aren't all that worthwhile.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 17 July 2004 22:46 (twenty years ago) link

I've read that one.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 July 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

so, how are you doing?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 15 October 2004 10:11 (twenty years ago) link

Hi, Cozen, I am going to send you something, more. Is your address the same as in ... March, was it? when I sent you that other thing?

― the bellefox, Friday, 15 October 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

no, it has changed. I will e-mail you my change of address.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 15 October 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

Who, me? I'm fine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 16 October 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

How are you?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

you know me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago) link

Read anything recommended to you lately?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

you don't know me.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

cozen, this posting style you have adopted of late....

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

IS ANNOYING AS FUCK IN A BAD WAY.

(sorry for swearing on ilb)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

Of late?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago) link

i think it's cos he's a very emotional and loving man and he wants us to think he's an A I machine.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

"all my posts from now on will be in inverted commas."

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

"great!"

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

it's difficult to translate very emotional and loving into grace.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, really.

Do you still think a poem is a translation of silence?

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

you know, in aberdeen there's not the leisure to think of such things.

but tomorrow, I have planned to buy a notebook which means I will write a book.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

I might be the only person who is very excited.

my book might be a manifesto. no-one writes them anymore.

maybe there is a manifesto in that, somewhere.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

my book is not a history of... the indefinite, the gaze, or of looking.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'm getting ahead of myself.

just buy the notebook.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

I bought a notebook and it did not turn into a book. Years later I decided to use it to do exercises to help me learn Ancient Greek. Then I got annoyed that I had no one to ask questions to when I tried to teach myself Ancient Greek, so I stopped.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

aberdeen bothered my brain.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

I have a new notebook. Will it spawn my new book, do ye think?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:21 (twenty years ago) link

you speak of remarkable things.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

When?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

Starting.... now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

My notebooks want to become books, but they end up being full of crime report numbers and Telewest complaint reference numbers and things like that, with the odd sprinkling of 'book'.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

You've lost me.

So, did you like Hendrie's goal on Saturday?

― the bellefox, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I thought there were two good goals. I didn't much like his handball 'excuse' though. I didn't know he was of Brummie extraction.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

haha this is a great thread.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

WHAT is the barthelme syllabus and WHY should i care?

― cozens secret lover., Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, thank you.

Donald Barthelme's Syllabus

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

when i was a kid i checked the complete hoyle out from the library week after week. i don't see why that couldn't be a good book on games.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago) link

That's not the sort of "on" I'm talking about. Something more like a poetics of games is what I want.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 February 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

learning the rules of the games seems like a good start for learning how games work. but if there's a book you want to see then get writing!

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 26 February 2006 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, sure, but it's more about what makes games beautiful.

I am not, actually, a writer, but yes, if I were, then I would write such a book.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 February 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago) link

everyone who is a writer has to become one at some point.

― Josh (Josh), Sunday, 26 February 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Josh OTM.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 26 February 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I have spent my writing career unbecoming a writer and I am unlikely to stop now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

so i did one of these for my friend a.: -

1. robert grenier, ‘oakland’ (1)
2. gilbert sorrentino, ‘imaginative qualities of actual things’
3. laurence sterne, ‘the life and opinions of tristram shandy, gentleman’
4. herman melville ‘the confidence-man, his masquerade’
5. nicholson baker, ‘U&I’
6. eddie campbell, ‘the fate of the artist’
7. david foster wallace, ‘a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do again; and other essays’
8. james mcphee, ‘oranges’ (2)
9. ron silliman, ed. ‘in the american tree’
10. lydia davis, ‘samuel johnson is indignant’
11. alan garner, ‘red shift’
12. brian aldiss, ed. ‘space opera’ (2)
13. samuel delany ‘stars in my pockets like grains of sand’
14. jonatham lethem ‘amnesia moon’
15. ian fleming, james bond books (3)
16. the upanishads
17. richard meltzer, ‘the aesthetics of rock’
18. jacques derrida ‘the post-card’
19. ludwig wittgenstein, ‘philosophical investigations’
20. james joyce, ‘ulysses’
21. advanced dungeons and dragons dungeon masters guide, 1st or 2nd ed (4)

(1) very out of print, but – http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/OAKLAND/html/contents.shtml
(2) late additions.
(3) as many as you can stand.
(4) 1st ed. by gary gygax, 2nd ed. by zeb cook. actually i think the first edition encapsulates the reasons for this one better. the 2nd edition is about half the word count and less ugly and disorganised, but people who actually play the game dislike it. but what do they know?

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

wait, didn't you just get a copy of "imaginative qualities" last week?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i only got 'oranges' today!

i.q. got added somewhere around the second paragraph, though i have finished it in the meantime. this list is very much not definitive and for-all-time, i doubt i could compile one of those.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

1st ed. DMG is so much more... interestingly obsessive? It refuses to accept that there can't be lists for everything in a way that the 2nd ed. books just don't, I think.

I was thinking earlier that a good book on games could be done 'uncreatively'? Like, with Chris just recreating, to the best of his ability, one game of Princes of Florence or something.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

It's funny how, even in 1st ed., the Player's Handbook is this totally sane and unliterary guidebook to actually playing D&D.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, I need to get around to reading those Upanishads, I suppose.

Golly those "Oakland" scans are huge. I love being able to see the detail of the Tuumba book, but that's a bit hard to read on the screen. Still, Grenier is great.

I have not read that particular Delany, since its sequel isn't out yet. (Nor does it seem like it will be any time soon...)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

hey cozen! how's it going?

― j., Monday, 6 June 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link

(reminded of this thread when searching for 'upanishads')

― j., Monday, 6 June 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Not sure why D&D books are on these lists - though I own many of them.

― the pinefox, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link

Flatland / Emma: I can see that
Peanuts / Finnegans Wake: each illuminates the other
Philosophical Investigations / Harriet the Spy: yes!
Upanishads / Chicago Manual of Style: a reach
Wodehouse / Programming Perl: still doubtful about this one

― alimosina, Monday, 6 June 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link

I did read a number of these books in the end actually...

― this you irl http://i.imgur.com/v3kw8.gif (cozen), Monday, 6 June 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

specifically...

1. Abbott Abbott, Edwin: "Flatland"
 6. Bénabou, Marcel: "Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books"
 8. Cortázar, Julio: "Cronopios And Famas" 
11. de Maistre, Xavier: "Voyage Around My Room" 
13. Delany, Samuel: "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue" 
14. Dickinson, Emily: Poems 
23. Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Poems
 28. Markson, David: "Wittgenstein's Mistress" 
32. Orwell, George: "Collected Essays" 
36. Queneau, Raymond: "Exercises En Style" 
43. Stein, Gertrude: "Tender Buttons" 
46. University of Chicago Press Staff, "The Chicago Manual Of Style" 

― cozen, Monday, 15 April 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link

those are good books

― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Monday, 15 April 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link

this is a cool list, i like everything i've read on it.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 15 April 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link

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