Sometimes I read. This year was no different. Here is a list of things*.
Enjoy.
1. Things of the Novel and Whatnot Variety Published In, or very Nearly In, 2011:
Habibi by Craig Thompson**
Bossypants by Tina Fey**
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
The Arctic Marauder by Jacques Tardi
2. Things of the Novel and Whatnot Variety Published in the Past, in One Golden Age or Another:
Infinite Jest** by David Foster Wallace
Complete Shorter Fiction** of Oscar Wilde
40 Stories** by Donald Barthelme
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
River of Gods by Ian McDonald
3. Some Selection of Things of the Longform or Longreads or What-Have-You Variety
Ray Kachel (photo by Wayne Lawrence)
"All the Angry People" by George Packer (one man, among many, at #OWS)
"Why Science Fiction Writers are Like Porn Stars" by Charlie Jane Anders
"Unspoken Truths" by Christopher Hitchens
"Pre-Occupied" by Mattathias Schwartz (on the origins of #OWS)
"Outsourcing Jobs" by Gary Sernovitz (on Steve Jobs, China, and Apple)
"Wall Street Isn't Winning -- It's Cheating" by Matt Taibbi
"The Last Movie Maestro" by John Jurgensen (a profile of John Williams)
"Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot (a profile of Carrie Brownstein)
"The Han Solo Comedy Hour" by Frank DiGiacomo
"Al Goldstein: The Pornographer in Winter" by Lili Anolik
"Just Write It" by Laura Miller (on George R.R. Martin and fans)
"You Say You Want a Devolution" by Kurt Andersen (Except he's wrong. Mostly. Partly. The world of fashion, technology, and art has changed. Take the ten year old me and zap him 20 years into the future, and he would notice a difference. Trust me. He was a sharp kid. But, the article is an important one to remind you that some people's eyes go old before their time).
"The Writer as Detective" by Roger Rosenblatt
ttfn, readers. Happy reading.
*Note, that ** will be used to indicate these books may have changed my life and/or will probably be returned to, or thrust upon people, for a variety of well-intentioned reasons, as time goes on.
**See above.
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