A Weschler Table, in no particular order
Lawrence Weschler was in town recently and stopped by the store. In talking with Jan and Paul, he mentioned that he had a list of recommended books. Here it is:
A Weschler Table, in no particular order
Rachel Cohen, A Chance Meeting
Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (Muybridge)
Jonathan Schell, Unconquerable World
or better: Observing the Nixon Years
Curzio Malaparte, Kaputt
Joseph Mitchell, Joe Gould’s Secret (or the whole Up in the Old Hotel collection)
Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Selected Essays
David Graeber, Debt
Ian Frazier, Out of New York
Great Plains
William Finnegan, Cold New World
Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor
Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye
Mark Salzman, True Notebooks
Richard Halpern, Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence
Edward Snow, Inside Breughel
Harry Berger, Manhood, Marriage & Mischief (Rembrandt’s Night Watch)
Benjamin Binstock, Vermeer’s Family Secrets
Herman Melville, Moby Dick (but the U Calif /Arion Press edition!)
David Eagelman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
Larry McMurtry, Duane’s Depressed
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen,
or The Good Soldier
Emma Donahue, Room
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories and Forty Stories
(though if they were available, I’d prefer: Sadness, and Amateurs)
Grace Paley, Selected Stories
(though if they were available I’d prefer Enormous Changes…)
David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Bruce Duffy, The World as I Found It
Jose Saramago, Blindness, or
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Assn, J. Henry Waugh proprietor
Maira and Tibor Kalman, Unfashion
Michael Benson, Beyond
Dennis Adams, Double Exposure
Chris Marker, La Jetee (the book, but also the DVD)
W.H. Auden, Poems (would have preferred Thank You, Fog)
Nazim Hikmet, Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
Wislawa Szymborska, Collected Poems
Zbigniew Herbert, Barbarian in the Garden
Report from the Besieged City
Czeslaw Milosz, Collected Poems
Christopher Logue, War Music
Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan Smartest Boy in the World
Lauren Redniss, Radioactive
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Overflow (Others I wish I could have included, but this is getting ridiculous):
John Berger, G.
Nicholas Mosely, Hopeful Monsters
John McPhee, The Control of Nature
Janet Malcolm, The Crime of Sheila McGough
John D’Agata and Jim Fingal, The Lifespan of a Fact
Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
Noelle Oxenhandler, The Eros of Parenthood
Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City
Hope in Dark Times
Danilo Kis, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
WG Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
The Breast
Mark Salzman, Lying Awake