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The keys to the Kingdom are locked inside the Kingdom -- Josh Ritter

2013 Reading

Books read in 2013, reverse chronological order:


The History of the Snowman -- Bob Eckstein

Raw -- Mark Haskell Smith

Why Are You So Sad? -- Jason Porter

Total Chaos -- Jean-Claude Izzo

The Flamethrowers -- Rachel Kushner

Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine -- Simon Critchley & Jameson Webster

Little Failure -- Gary Shteyngart

My Mistake -- Daniel Menaker

USA Noir -- Johnny Temple, ed.

The Rage -- Gene Kerrigan

My Notorious Life -- Kate Manning

Acharnians -- Aristophanes (Henderson, tr.)

Medea -- Euripides (Warner, tr.)

The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida

Antigone -- Sophocles (Fitts and Fitzgerald, tr.)

Tree of Smoke -- Denis Johnson

Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball -- Molly Lawless

Works and Days -- Hesiod

Theogony -- Hesiod

The Pioneer Detectives -- Konstantin Kakaes

My Struggle:Book 1 -- Karl Ove Knausgaard

Twin Cities Noir: The Expanded Edition -- Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, eds.

Pitching in a Pinch -- Christy Matthewson

The Signal -- Ron Carlson

Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies -- James Wolcott

The People's Act of Love -- James Meek

The Last Word -- Lisa Lutz

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal -- Mary Roach

Where'd You Go, Bernadette -- Maria Semple

My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles -- Peter Biskind (ed.)

The Teleportation Accident -- Ned Beauman

Voltaire in Love -- Nancy Mitford

Fatale -- Jean-Patrick Manchette

Erasure -- Percival Everett

The Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

The Dinner -- Herman Koch

Bring Up The Bodies -- Hilary Mantel

How to Be a Woman -- Caitlin Moran

Building Stories -- Chris Ware

Whose Body? -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Secrets of the Wholly Grill-- Lawrence G. Townsend

Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever -- Mark O'Connell

HHhH -- Laurent Binet

Jesus' Son -- Denis Johnson

Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865 -- Margaret Leech

Labyrinth -- David L. Ulin

Red Lights -- George Simenon

Fifth Business -- Robertson Davies

From NYRB

"Like most people in New York, I daily expect to find myself walking the West Side Highway with nothing but a shopping cart stacked with bottled water, a flashlight, and a dead loved one on my back . . . ." -- Zadie Smith