wrapped up in books
my library. advise, if you must. i'm not very well read; however, this does not account for whats stored in the garage. give me something worthwhile to read, please?
THE ONLY BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED
"Esquire Magazine Drink Book" (a collection of articles and recipes dated 1956) Frederick A. Birmingham, ed
THE DEATH LIBRARY; being a specialization on the nature of death *handstapleforehead*
"The Hour of Our Death"; Philippe Aries
"The Book of the Dead"; introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge
"Differential Mortality in the United States - A study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology;"
-- Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Philip M. Hauser
"Japanese Death Poems"; Yoel Hoffman; ed
"Death - The Final Stage of Growth"; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"The Death + Afterlife Book - Encyclopedia of Death, Near Death and Life After Death"; James R. Lewis, ed.
"The American Way of Death"; Jessica Mitford
"How We Die - Reflections on Life's Final Chapter"; Sherwin B. Nuland
Science, Religion + Philosophy
"Introducing Existentialism"; Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
"The Transformative Vision"; Jose A. Arguelles
"Sources of Chinese Tradition"; WM. Theodore De Bary, Wing-Tsit Chan, Burton Watson
"Yoga - Reflections on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"; Bernard Bouanchaud
"Oriental Mythology"; Joseph Campbell
"Neuronal Man - The Biology of Mind"; Jean-Pierre Changeux
"Kensho - The Heart of Zen"; Thomas Cleary
"The Story of Philosophy"; Will Durant
"Self-Reliance + Other Essays"; Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Mythology"; Edith Hamilton
"Virtual Realism"; Michael Heim
"Darwin + the Darwinian Revolution"; Gertrude Himmelfarb
"The Tao of Pooh"; Benjamin Hoff
"Prehistoric Religion"; E.O. James
"Logic + Philosophy - A Modern Introduction"; Howard Kahane
"Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre"; Walter Kaufmann, ed
"From the Presocratics to the Present - A Personal Odyssey"; Daniel Kolak
"Mayfield Anthology of Western Philosophy"; Daniel Kolak, editor
"The Ghost Dance - Origins of Religion"; Weston LaBarre
"Angels - A to Z"; James R. Lewis + Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
"On the Nature of the Universe"; Lucretius
"The BEST Guide to Eastern Philosophy + Religion"; Diane Morgan (truth be told, its TERRIBLE.)
"Philosophy + the American School"; Van Cleve Morris
"Thus Spoke Zarathrusta"; Friedrich Nietzsche
"Kuan Yin: Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion";
Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsey, Man-Ho Kwok
"Voodoo Science - The Road from Foolishness to Fraud"; Robert Park
"The Republic + Other Works"; Plato; translated by B. Jowett
"Science, Faith and Society"; Michael Polanyi
"Literature + Existentialism"; Jean-Paul Sartre
"L'ing Ch'i Ching - A Classic Chinese Oracle"; Ralph D. + Mei-chun Sawyer
"On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism"; Gershom Scholem
"Zen for Americans; Soyen Shaku"; translated by D.T. Suzuki
"What is Phenomenology? - Four Essays by Pierre Thevenaz"; James M. Edi; editor
"The Unity of Nature"; Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
HISTORY (pffft. i am t3h lacking)
"The Templars - Knights of God"; Edward Burman
"How the Irish Saved Civilization"; Thomas Cahill
"Gods, Graves + Scholars"; C.W. Ceram
"The Rape of Nanking"; Iris Chang
"Modern East Asia - Essays in Interpretation"; James P. Crowley
"The Druids"; Peter Berrisford Ellis
"The Great War and Modern Memory" - Paul Fussell
"The Uprooted"; Oscar Handlin
"The Celts"; Gerhard Herm
"Politics, Culture , and Class in the French Revolution"; Lynn Hunt
"Handbook for Industrial Archaeologists"; Kenneth Hudson
"Code Breaking - A History + Explanation"; Rudolf Kippenhahn
"Pagans + Christians"; Robin Lane Fox
"The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present"; Felix Gilbert
"The Damned Die Hard - French Foriegn Legion"; Hugh McLeave
"The Great Plains"; Walter Prescott Webb
POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY + ANTHROPOLOGY
"Open the Books - How to Research a Corporation"; Urban Planning Aid (no author)
"Rules for Radicals - A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Individuals"; Saul D. Alinsky
-- (in other words, FUCK YOU, ABBIE HOFFMAN)
"An Introduction to Anthropology"; Ralph L. Beals
"Patterns of Culture"; Ruth Benedict; prefaced by Margaret Mead
"The Book of the Courtier"; Baldassare Castiglione
"The First Freedom - Liberty + Justice in the World of Books and Reading"; Robert Downs; editor
"Marx + Engels - Basic Writings on Politics + Philosophy"; Lewis S. Feuer; editor
"Urban Society"; Gist + Fava
"Friendly Fascism - The New Face of Power in America"; Bertram Gross
"The Prince"; Machiavelli
"Wierd Like Us - My Bohemian America"; Ann Powers
"Killing the Spirit - Higher Education in America"; Page Smith
"The Hacker Crackdown - Law + Disorder on the Electronic Frontier"; Bruce Sterling
"Civil Disobediance + Other Essays"; Henry David Thoreau
"Literary Censorship"; Kingsley + Eleanor Widmer
LITERATURE (includes sci-fi, of which there is little)
"The Lone Ranger + Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven"; Sherman Alexie
"Pride and Prejudice"; Jane Austen
"In the Garden of Iden"; Kage Baker
"One for the Morning Glory"; John Barnes
"The Infinity Concerto"; Greg Bear
"Wuthering Heights"; Emily Bronte
"Peony"; Pearl S. Buck
"The Best of Lewis Carroll" - Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass,
-- The Hunting of the Snark, A Tangled Tale, Phantasmagoria, Nonsense from Letters
"Illywhacker"; Peter Carey
"Woman Hollaring Creek"; Sandra Cisneros
"The Woman in White"; Wilkie Collins
"Heart of Darkness + The Secret Sharer"; Joseph Conrad
"Tales of Land + Sea"; Joseph Conrad
"The Red Badge of Courage"; Stephen Crane
"Dhalgren"; Samuel R. Delany
"babel-17/empire star"; samuel r. delany
"Libra"; Don Dellilo
"White Noise"; Don Dellilo
"Crime and Punishment"; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Notes from the Underground"; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Sister Carrie"; Theodore Dreiser
"A Fire in the Sun"; George Alec Effinger
"The Mill on the Floss"; George Eliot
"Alcestis/Hippolytus/Iphigenia in Tauris"; Euripides
"The Bacchae"; Euripides
"Joseph Andrews"; Henry Fielding
"Madame Bovary"; Gustave Flaubert
"All Tomorrow's Parties"; William Gibson
"Burning Chrome": William Gibson
"Count Zero"; William Gibson
"Idoru"; William Gibson
"Johnny Mnemonic": William Gibson
"Mona Lisa Overdrive"; William Gibson
"Neuromancer"; William Gibson
"Pattern Recognition"; William Gibson
"The Difference Engine"; William Gibson + Bruce Sterling
"Memoirs of a Geisha"; Arthur Golden
"Smilla's Sense of Snow"; Peter Hoeg
"Dubliners"; James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; James Joyce
"The Portable James Joyce"; Harry Levin; ed
"Ulysses"; James Joyce
"The Mayor of Castorbridge"; Thomas Hardy
"Return of the Native"; Thomas Hardy
"Five Quarters of the Orange"; Joanne Harris
"The Sixteen Satires"; Juvenal
"The Complete Stories"; Franz Kafka
"The Metamorphosi"s; Franz Kafka
"On the Road"; Jack Kerouac
"The Solace of Leaving Early"; Haven Kimmel
"The Compass Rose"; Ursula K. LeGuin
"The Wind's Twelve Quarters"; Ursula K. LeGuin
"Maugham's Choice of Kiplings Best"; W. Somerset Maugham, ed
"The Parasites"; Daphne du Maurier
"Angela's Ashes"; Frank McCourt
"Altered Carbon"; Richard K. Morsgan
"The Magicians Wife"; Brian Moore
"Coin Locker Babies"; Ryu Murakami
"Ahab's Wife : Or, the Star-gazer"; Sena Jeter Naslund
"Lolita"; Vladimir Nabokov
"Yeats is Dead"; Joseph O'Connor; editor
"Wonderland"; Joyce Carol Oates
"The English Patient"; Michael Ondaatje
"The Art of Love"; Ovid
"The Flanders Panel"; Arturo Perez-Reverte
"The Unabridged Edgar Allen Poe"; Edgar Allen Poe
"The Human Stain"; Philip Roth
"The Catcher in the Rye"; J.D. Salinger
"Nine Stories"; J.D. Salinger
"The Tale of Genji"; Murasaki Shikibu
"Kokoro"; Natsume Soseki
"The Death of Woman Wang"; Jonathon D. Spence
"East of Eden"; John Steinbeck
"In Dubious Battle"; John Steinbeck
"Snow Crash"; Neal Stephenson
"Crystal Express"; Bruce Sterling
"Islands in the Net"; Bruce Sterling
"The Bonesetters Daughter"; Amy Tan
"The Hundred Secret Sense"; Amy Tan
"The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"; Humphrey Carpenter, ed
"Hadji Murad"; Leo Tolstoy
"Arthurian Romances"; Chretian de Troyes
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain
"The Portable Mark Twain"; Bernard De Voto, ed
"Mark Twain's Best", Morris Goldberger, ed
"Tom Sawyer"; Mark Twain
"Illusion"; Paula Volsky
"Little Altars Everywhere"; Rebecca Wells
"The Buccaneers"; Edith Wharton
"The Children"; Edith Wharton
"Ethan Frome"; Edith Wharton
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Oscar Wilde
"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang"; Kate Wilhelm
"The Tery"; F. Paul Wilson
LITERARY COMPILATIONS (unless noted otherwise, name listed is editor)
(secondly, as if i needed to inform you, i accumulated a mound of literature textbooks at a thrift store IN ADDITION to my university classes.)
"Literature - The Human Experience"; Richard Abcarion, Marvin Klotz
"Speaking for Ourselves - American Ethnic Writing"; Barbara Bradshaw + Lillian Faderman
"Not Quite Twenty"; Ruth F. Eisenburg
"The Conscious Reader"; Firestone, Shrugue, Shrodes
"Postmodern American Fiction"; Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy
"The Grove Press Reader: 1951 - 2001"; S.E. Gontarski
"Discovering Literature"; Guth + Rico
"Contemporary Japanese Literature - Fiction, Film + Other Writing since 1945"; Howard Hibbett
"The Bedford Reader"; 3rd + 4th editions; Kennedy, Kennedy, Aaron
"The Best American Short Stories - 2001"; Barbara Kingsolver
"Masters of Modern British Fiction"; George Wickes
LITERARY COMMENTARY
"Aspects of Alice-Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild as Seen Through the Critics' Looking Glass"; Robert Philips, ed
"A Readers Guide to Literary Terms"; Karl Beckson + Arthur Ganz
"Thoreau: A Collection of Critical Essays"; Sherman Paul, ed
POETRY
"ALOUD - Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe"; Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman; ed
"Nineteenth Century British Minor Poets"; W.H. Auden, ed
"Sappho, A New Translation"; translated by Mary Bernard
"Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine"; Joseph M. Bernstein; ed
"The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart"; Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade, ed
"The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain"; Charles Bukowski
"You Get So Alone at Times that it just makes Sense"; Charles Bukowski
"Selected Poetry + Prose of Byron"; W.H. Auden, ed
"Selected Poems"; Lord Byron, Christopher Moore, ed
"Heart of the Garfish"; Kathy Callaway
"Canterbury Tales"; Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, trans
"Canterbury Tales"; Chaucer; E.V. Rieu. ed
"Poetical Works"; Samuel Coleridge
"Reality Sandwiches"; Allen Ginsberg
"Danger and Beauty"; Jessica Hagedorn
"Zen Poems"; Nhat Hanh
"Opened Ground - 1966 to 1996"; Seamus Heaney
"The Haiku Anthology"; Cor Van Den Heuvel; ed
"Japanese Death Poems"; Yoel Hoffman; ed
"The Illiad"; Homer
"The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry"; Alan Kaufman, ed
"Mexico City Blues"; Jack Kerouac
"Very Bad Poetry"; Kathryn + Ross Petras, ed
"Chief Modern Poets of England and America"; Gerald DeWitt Sanders, John Nelson, M.L. Rosenthal, ed
"From the Country of Eight Islands - Anthology of Japanese Poetry"; Hiroaki Sato, Burton Watson
"Translations from"; Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton, trans
"A Season in Hell + The Drunken Boat"; Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varese, trans
"The Ghost of Eden"; Chase Twichell
"Verses that Hurt"; Jordan + Amy Trachtenburg, ed
"Chinese Poetry - Major Modes + Genres"; Wai-Lim Yip, ed, trans
POETIC METHOD
"The Order of Poetry"; Edward A. Bloom, Charles H. Philbrick, Elmer M. Blistein
"Poetry Handbook"; Babette Deutsch
"The Triggering Town"; Richard Hugo
"The Discovery of Poetry"; Francis Mayes
"Letters to a Young Poet"; Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, trans
"The Heart Aroused - Poetry + the preservation of the Soul in Corporate America"; David Whyte
-- (PFFFT. i'll preserve my own soul, thank you kindly, Sir.)
Poetry for Dummies
"The Poetry Issue"; The Paris Review, v154
GRAMMATICS AND OTHER DISORDERS (if anyone can put me into contact with a Victorian grammarbook, reproduction or vintage; please, by all means, contact me. i'll love you forever.)
"What If? - Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers"; Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter
"The Art of Fiction"; R. F. Dietrich, Roger H. Sundell; ed
"Harbrace Handbook of English"; John C. Hodges (dated 1941)
"The Lively Art of Writing"; Lucille Vaughan Payne
"Practical English + Effective Speech";
-- presented by the Better-Speech Institute of America; Estelle B. Hunter
-- (a boxed set of manuals, dated 1935)
"Bird by Bird"; Anne Lamott
secondly, i'm starting a new blog; this one won't be deleted. i'll create it tonight, have it html'ed and whatnot by next week, pending finals. well, the final. only one class this semester, barring the befuckered camping class. you can befriend me, refriend me, or not; i've more or less pidgeon-holed myself with the concept of 'rian'
thats whats been bothering me lately; that i can't distinguish between me and the public front.
THE ONLY BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED
"Esquire Magazine Drink Book" (a collection of articles and recipes dated 1956) Frederick A. Birmingham, ed
THE DEATH LIBRARY; being a specialization on the nature of death *handstapleforehead*
"The Hour of Our Death"; Philippe Aries
"The Book of the Dead"; introduction by E.A. Wallis Budge
"Differential Mortality in the United States - A study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology;"
-- Evelyn M. Kitagawa, Philip M. Hauser
"Japanese Death Poems"; Yoel Hoffman; ed
"Death - The Final Stage of Growth"; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"The Death + Afterlife Book - Encyclopedia of Death, Near Death and Life After Death"; James R. Lewis, ed.
"The American Way of Death"; Jessica Mitford
"How We Die - Reflections on Life's Final Chapter"; Sherwin B. Nuland
Science, Religion + Philosophy
"Introducing Existentialism"; Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
"The Transformative Vision"; Jose A. Arguelles
"Sources of Chinese Tradition"; WM. Theodore De Bary, Wing-Tsit Chan, Burton Watson
"Yoga - Reflections on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"; Bernard Bouanchaud
"Oriental Mythology"; Joseph Campbell
"Neuronal Man - The Biology of Mind"; Jean-Pierre Changeux
"Kensho - The Heart of Zen"; Thomas Cleary
"The Story of Philosophy"; Will Durant
"Self-Reliance + Other Essays"; Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Mythology"; Edith Hamilton
"Virtual Realism"; Michael Heim
"Darwin + the Darwinian Revolution"; Gertrude Himmelfarb
"The Tao of Pooh"; Benjamin Hoff
"Prehistoric Religion"; E.O. James
"Logic + Philosophy - A Modern Introduction"; Howard Kahane
"Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre"; Walter Kaufmann, ed
"From the Presocratics to the Present - A Personal Odyssey"; Daniel Kolak
"Mayfield Anthology of Western Philosophy"; Daniel Kolak, editor
"The Ghost Dance - Origins of Religion"; Weston LaBarre
"Angels - A to Z"; James R. Lewis + Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
"On the Nature of the Universe"; Lucretius
"The BEST Guide to Eastern Philosophy + Religion"; Diane Morgan (truth be told, its TERRIBLE.)
"Philosophy + the American School"; Van Cleve Morris
"Thus Spoke Zarathrusta"; Friedrich Nietzsche
"Kuan Yin: Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion";
Martin Palmer, Jay Ramsey, Man-Ho Kwok
"Voodoo Science - The Road from Foolishness to Fraud"; Robert Park
"The Republic + Other Works"; Plato; translated by B. Jowett
"Science, Faith and Society"; Michael Polanyi
"Literature + Existentialism"; Jean-Paul Sartre
"L'ing Ch'i Ching - A Classic Chinese Oracle"; Ralph D. + Mei-chun Sawyer
"On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism"; Gershom Scholem
"Zen for Americans; Soyen Shaku"; translated by D.T. Suzuki
"What is Phenomenology? - Four Essays by Pierre Thevenaz"; James M. Edi; editor
"The Unity of Nature"; Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
HISTORY (pffft. i am t3h lacking)
"The Templars - Knights of God"; Edward Burman
"How the Irish Saved Civilization"; Thomas Cahill
"Gods, Graves + Scholars"; C.W. Ceram
"The Rape of Nanking"; Iris Chang
"Modern East Asia - Essays in Interpretation"; James P. Crowley
"The Druids"; Peter Berrisford Ellis
"The Great War and Modern Memory" - Paul Fussell
"The Uprooted"; Oscar Handlin
"The Celts"; Gerhard Herm
"Politics, Culture , and Class in the French Revolution"; Lynn Hunt
"Handbook for Industrial Archaeologists"; Kenneth Hudson
"Code Breaking - A History + Explanation"; Rudolf Kippenhahn
"Pagans + Christians"; Robin Lane Fox
"The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present"; Felix Gilbert
"The Damned Die Hard - French Foriegn Legion"; Hugh McLeave
"The Great Plains"; Walter Prescott Webb
POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY + ANTHROPOLOGY
"Open the Books - How to Research a Corporation"; Urban Planning Aid (no author)
"Rules for Radicals - A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Individuals"; Saul D. Alinsky
-- (in other words, FUCK YOU, ABBIE HOFFMAN)
"An Introduction to Anthropology"; Ralph L. Beals
"Patterns of Culture"; Ruth Benedict; prefaced by Margaret Mead
"The Book of the Courtier"; Baldassare Castiglione
"The First Freedom - Liberty + Justice in the World of Books and Reading"; Robert Downs; editor
"Marx + Engels - Basic Writings on Politics + Philosophy"; Lewis S. Feuer; editor
"Urban Society"; Gist + Fava
"Friendly Fascism - The New Face of Power in America"; Bertram Gross
"The Prince"; Machiavelli
"Wierd Like Us - My Bohemian America"; Ann Powers
"Killing the Spirit - Higher Education in America"; Page Smith
"The Hacker Crackdown - Law + Disorder on the Electronic Frontier"; Bruce Sterling
"Civil Disobediance + Other Essays"; Henry David Thoreau
"Literary Censorship"; Kingsley + Eleanor Widmer
LITERATURE (includes sci-fi, of which there is little)
"The Lone Ranger + Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven"; Sherman Alexie
"Pride and Prejudice"; Jane Austen
"In the Garden of Iden"; Kage Baker
"One for the Morning Glory"; John Barnes
"The Infinity Concerto"; Greg Bear
"Wuthering Heights"; Emily Bronte
"Peony"; Pearl S. Buck
"The Best of Lewis Carroll" - Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass,
-- The Hunting of the Snark, A Tangled Tale, Phantasmagoria, Nonsense from Letters
"Illywhacker"; Peter Carey
"Woman Hollaring Creek"; Sandra Cisneros
"The Woman in White"; Wilkie Collins
"Heart of Darkness + The Secret Sharer"; Joseph Conrad
"Tales of Land + Sea"; Joseph Conrad
"The Red Badge of Courage"; Stephen Crane
"Dhalgren"; Samuel R. Delany
"babel-17/empire star"; samuel r. delany
"Libra"; Don Dellilo
"White Noise"; Don Dellilo
"Crime and Punishment"; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Notes from the Underground"; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Sister Carrie"; Theodore Dreiser
"A Fire in the Sun"; George Alec Effinger
"The Mill on the Floss"; George Eliot
"Alcestis/Hippolytus/Iphigenia in Tauris"; Euripides
"The Bacchae"; Euripides
"Joseph Andrews"; Henry Fielding
"Madame Bovary"; Gustave Flaubert
"All Tomorrow's Parties"; William Gibson
"Burning Chrome": William Gibson
"Count Zero"; William Gibson
"Idoru"; William Gibson
"Johnny Mnemonic": William Gibson
"Mona Lisa Overdrive"; William Gibson
"Neuromancer"; William Gibson
"Pattern Recognition"; William Gibson
"The Difference Engine"; William Gibson + Bruce Sterling
"Memoirs of a Geisha"; Arthur Golden
"Smilla's Sense of Snow"; Peter Hoeg
"Dubliners"; James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"; James Joyce
"The Portable James Joyce"; Harry Levin; ed
"Ulysses"; James Joyce
"The Mayor of Castorbridge"; Thomas Hardy
"Return of the Native"; Thomas Hardy
"Five Quarters of the Orange"; Joanne Harris
"The Sixteen Satires"; Juvenal
"The Complete Stories"; Franz Kafka
"The Metamorphosi"s; Franz Kafka
"On the Road"; Jack Kerouac
"The Solace of Leaving Early"; Haven Kimmel
"The Compass Rose"; Ursula K. LeGuin
"The Wind's Twelve Quarters"; Ursula K. LeGuin
"Maugham's Choice of Kiplings Best"; W. Somerset Maugham, ed
"The Parasites"; Daphne du Maurier
"Angela's Ashes"; Frank McCourt
"Altered Carbon"; Richard K. Morsgan
"The Magicians Wife"; Brian Moore
"Coin Locker Babies"; Ryu Murakami
"Ahab's Wife : Or, the Star-gazer"; Sena Jeter Naslund
"Lolita"; Vladimir Nabokov
"Yeats is Dead"; Joseph O'Connor; editor
"Wonderland"; Joyce Carol Oates
"The English Patient"; Michael Ondaatje
"The Art of Love"; Ovid
"The Flanders Panel"; Arturo Perez-Reverte
"The Unabridged Edgar Allen Poe"; Edgar Allen Poe
"The Human Stain"; Philip Roth
"The Catcher in the Rye"; J.D. Salinger
"Nine Stories"; J.D. Salinger
"The Tale of Genji"; Murasaki Shikibu
"Kokoro"; Natsume Soseki
"The Death of Woman Wang"; Jonathon D. Spence
"East of Eden"; John Steinbeck
"In Dubious Battle"; John Steinbeck
"Snow Crash"; Neal Stephenson
"Crystal Express"; Bruce Sterling
"Islands in the Net"; Bruce Sterling
"The Bonesetters Daughter"; Amy Tan
"The Hundred Secret Sense"; Amy Tan
"The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien"; Humphrey Carpenter, ed
"Hadji Murad"; Leo Tolstoy
"Arthurian Romances"; Chretian de Troyes
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain
"The Portable Mark Twain"; Bernard De Voto, ed
"Mark Twain's Best", Morris Goldberger, ed
"Tom Sawyer"; Mark Twain
"Illusion"; Paula Volsky
"Little Altars Everywhere"; Rebecca Wells
"The Buccaneers"; Edith Wharton
"The Children"; Edith Wharton
"Ethan Frome"; Edith Wharton
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"; Oscar Wilde
"Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang"; Kate Wilhelm
"The Tery"; F. Paul Wilson
LITERARY COMPILATIONS (unless noted otherwise, name listed is editor)
(secondly, as if i needed to inform you, i accumulated a mound of literature textbooks at a thrift store IN ADDITION to my university classes.)
"Literature - The Human Experience"; Richard Abcarion, Marvin Klotz
"Speaking for Ourselves - American Ethnic Writing"; Barbara Bradshaw + Lillian Faderman
"Not Quite Twenty"; Ruth F. Eisenburg
"The Conscious Reader"; Firestone, Shrugue, Shrodes
"Postmodern American Fiction"; Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy
"The Grove Press Reader: 1951 - 2001"; S.E. Gontarski
"Discovering Literature"; Guth + Rico
"Contemporary Japanese Literature - Fiction, Film + Other Writing since 1945"; Howard Hibbett
"The Bedford Reader"; 3rd + 4th editions; Kennedy, Kennedy, Aaron
"The Best American Short Stories - 2001"; Barbara Kingsolver
"Masters of Modern British Fiction"; George Wickes
LITERARY COMMENTARY
"Aspects of Alice-Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild as Seen Through the Critics' Looking Glass"; Robert Philips, ed
"A Readers Guide to Literary Terms"; Karl Beckson + Arthur Ganz
"Thoreau: A Collection of Critical Essays"; Sherman Paul, ed
POETRY
"ALOUD - Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe"; Miguel Algarin, Bob Holman; ed
"Nineteenth Century British Minor Poets"; W.H. Auden, ed
"Sappho, A New Translation"; translated by Mary Bernard
"Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine"; Joseph M. Bernstein; ed
"The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart"; Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade, ed
"The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain"; Charles Bukowski
"You Get So Alone at Times that it just makes Sense"; Charles Bukowski
"Selected Poetry + Prose of Byron"; W.H. Auden, ed
"Selected Poems"; Lord Byron, Christopher Moore, ed
"Heart of the Garfish"; Kathy Callaway
"Canterbury Tales"; Chaucer; Nevill Coghill, trans
"Canterbury Tales"; Chaucer; E.V. Rieu. ed
"Poetical Works"; Samuel Coleridge
"Reality Sandwiches"; Allen Ginsberg
"Danger and Beauty"; Jessica Hagedorn
"Zen Poems"; Nhat Hanh
"Opened Ground - 1966 to 1996"; Seamus Heaney
"The Haiku Anthology"; Cor Van Den Heuvel; ed
"Japanese Death Poems"; Yoel Hoffman; ed
"The Illiad"; Homer
"The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry"; Alan Kaufman, ed
"Mexico City Blues"; Jack Kerouac
"Very Bad Poetry"; Kathryn + Ross Petras, ed
"Chief Modern Poets of England and America"; Gerald DeWitt Sanders, John Nelson, M.L. Rosenthal, ed
"From the Country of Eight Islands - Anthology of Japanese Poetry"; Hiroaki Sato, Burton Watson
"Translations from"; Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton, trans
"A Season in Hell + The Drunken Boat"; Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varese, trans
"The Ghost of Eden"; Chase Twichell
"Verses that Hurt"; Jordan + Amy Trachtenburg, ed
"Chinese Poetry - Major Modes + Genres"; Wai-Lim Yip, ed, trans
POETIC METHOD
"The Order of Poetry"; Edward A. Bloom, Charles H. Philbrick, Elmer M. Blistein
"Poetry Handbook"; Babette Deutsch
"The Triggering Town"; Richard Hugo
"The Discovery of Poetry"; Francis Mayes
"Letters to a Young Poet"; Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, trans
"The Heart Aroused - Poetry + the preservation of the Soul in Corporate America"; David Whyte
-- (PFFFT. i'll preserve my own soul, thank you kindly, Sir.)
Poetry for Dummies
"The Poetry Issue"; The Paris Review, v154
GRAMMATICS AND OTHER DISORDERS (if anyone can put me into contact with a Victorian grammarbook, reproduction or vintage; please, by all means, contact me. i'll love you forever.)
"What If? - Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers"; Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter
"The Art of Fiction"; R. F. Dietrich, Roger H. Sundell; ed
"Harbrace Handbook of English"; John C. Hodges (dated 1941)
"The Lively Art of Writing"; Lucille Vaughan Payne
"Practical English + Effective Speech";
-- presented by the Better-Speech Institute of America; Estelle B. Hunter
-- (a boxed set of manuals, dated 1935)
"Bird by Bird"; Anne Lamott
secondly, i'm starting a new blog; this one won't be deleted. i'll create it tonight, have it html'ed and whatnot by next week, pending finals. well, the final. only one class this semester, barring the befuckered camping class. you can befriend me, refriend me, or not; i've more or less pidgeon-holed myself with the concept of 'rian'
thats whats been bothering me lately; that i can't distinguish between me and the public front.