Jambalaya

"As if salaciously self-serving isn't the very soul of American noir."

-- Joyce Carol Oates, responding to James Ellroy's self-criticism regarding "My Dark Places."

2015 Reading

The Red Right Hand -- Joel Townsley Rogers
The Sellout -- Paul Beatty
Black Sabbath's Master of Reality -- John Darnielle
Hamlet, Revenge! -- Michael Innes
The Devil's Home on Leave -- Derek Raymond
Mislaid -- Nell Zink
A Game of Hide and Seek -- Elizabeth Taylor
Out On the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio -- Jessica Abel
The Bullpen Gospels -- Dick Hayhurst
On the Move -- Oliver Sacks
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself -- Robert Montgomery Bird
The Green Man -- Kingsley Amis
H is for Hawk -- Helen Macdonald
The True Deceiver -- Tove Jansson
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial -- Kenji Yoshino
Elvis is King: Costello's My Aim is True -- Richard Crouse
Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers -- Edward Mendelson
How to Start a Fire -- Lisa Lutz
Silence Once Begun -- Jesse Ball
How Late It Was, How Late -- James Kelman
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh -- John Lahr
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America -- Jill Leovy
Loitering: New and Collected Essays -- Charles D'Ambrosio
All The Birds, Singing -- Evie Wyld
Prison Noir -- Joyce Carol Oates (ed.)
Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places -- Deborah Levy
The Book of Strange New Things -- Michel Faber

Tuesday, April 19, 2011