reading log

everything I’ve read since the winter solstice of 2023. an asterisk (*) indicates a reread; a pound sign (#) indicates something I quit on.

  1. The Mothman Prophecies, John A Keel
  2. Short Poems, John Berryman
  3. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges*
  4. The Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe
  5. Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison
  6. The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher#
  7. Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
  8. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Paul L. Williams#
  9. History and Utopia, Emil Cioran
  10. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Lord Byron
  11. Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
  12. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
  13. Look At This Blue, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
  14. The Secret History of the World as Laid Down by the Secret Societies, Mark Booth
  15. The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
  16. 2666, Roberto BolaƱo
  17. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs*
  18. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, Jean Baudrillard
  19. America, Jean Baudrillard*
  20. Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, W. David Marx
  21. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse#