Not so new addiction XVII

May 1, 2022 By Alison Leslie Gold in Personal No Comments

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit

The Possessed by Elif Batuman

Letters of note: Fathers by Shaun Usher

Smoke by Ivan Turgenev (second reading)

To Be a Man (short stories) by Nicole Krauss

Medusa’s Ankles (short stories) by A. S. Byatt

English Literature (study guide) by Benjamin W. Griffin, Ph.D.

All that Man is (stories) by David Szaley

Putting the Rabbit Back in the Hat by Brian Cox

The Body by Bill Bryson

Rogue’s Gallery by Philip Hook

The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron

The Body by Bill Bryson

The Coloring Book by Colin Quinn

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 (essays) by Peter Schjeldahl

The Living Hand (essays) by Edmund Morris

Welcome Home (short essays) by Lucia Berlin

Evenings in Paradise (short stories) by Lucia Berlin

Unaccustomed Earth (short stories) by Jhumpa lahiri

Aftershocks (memoir) by Nadia Owusu

Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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Artists who lived with (or had their laundry done by) their mothers*

Henry David Thoreau Miles Davis Lou Gehrig Andy Warhol Eudora Welty Thomas Wolfe Jorge Luis Borges Marianne Moore William Carlos Williams Marcel Proust Jack Kerouac *(if, for any reason, the research in this list is incorrect, please forgive and wipe faulty information from memory)
Not so new addiction XVII

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit The Possessed by Elif Batuman Letters of note: Fathers by Shaun Usher Smoke by Ivan Turgenev (second reading) To Be a Man (short stories) by Nicole Krauss Medusa’s Ankles (short stories) by A. S. Byatt English Literature (study guide) by Benjamin W. Griffin, Ph.D. All that Man is (stories) by(…)
Not so new addiction XVI

Bliss and Other Stories (short stories) by Katherine Mansfield The Magician by Colm Tóibín Elsewhere Home (short stories) by Leila Aboulela Passage to India by E.M. Forster A Swim in a Pond of Rain (on Chekhov stories) by George Saunders Why Read Moby-Dick? (on Moby-Dick) by Nathaniel Philbrick The Novel of the Century (on Les(…)
Not so new addiction XV

Chanel’s Riviera by Anne De Courcy Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling Pianos and Flowers (short stories) by Alexander McCall Smith Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk Trains and Lovers (interlocking stories) by Alexander McCall Smith The Black Monk and other stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Real Estate by Deborah(…)
Not so new addiction XIV

Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey by Sybille Bedford Fifty-two Stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Other People’s Love Affairs (short stories) by D. Wystan Owen Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, I.A. Bunin Reading Chekhov by Janet Malcolm Ernest Hemingway: The Short(…)
Not so new addiction XIII

The Graybar Hotel (short stories) by Curtis Dawkins Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird Flights (fragments) by Olga Tokarczuk Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Diamond Dog (poems) by Diane Wakowski Bowie’s Bookshelf: a Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life by John O’Connell Realms of Gold: The Letters and Poems of John Keats(…)
Not so new addiction XII

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (stories) by Helene Tursten How to Pronounce Knife (stories) by Souvankham Thammavongsa Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Thirteen Ways of looking (stories) by Colum McCann Sorry for your trouble (stories) by Richard Ford The Beach by Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker Your Duck is My Duck(…)