An excerpt from Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker.
Tag Archives: reading
“Where We Live Now” by Philip Levine
I read a poem from Philip Levine‘s 1979 collection, Ashes.
The Incognito Lounge by Denis Johnson
I read the title poem from a 1994 Denis Johnson collection.
Daybook by Nathan Knapp
Cathedral by Raymond Carver
I read the title story from Carver’s great book.
Truth Serum
A couple pages from Eugene Marten’s Layman’s Report.
Read my review of the book.
Background music by Emily Robb.
De Kooning on the Renaissance
I read an essay Willem De Kooning wrote in 1950 that is included in a tiny book I bought from the collection of Tom Verlaine.
A Georges Perec list
A hundred-seventy-nine-line list from Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual that is a kind of skeleton key or cheat sheet for the whole book.
Bartlebooth learns to watercolor
A few more pages from Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual.
Preamble to Life: A User’s Manual
I read the intro to Georges Perec’s 1978 novel.
Coyle & Bandini
I read the first few pages from George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle and John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini.
It’s Because We’re So Poor
I read a story from Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames.
Pedro Páramo
The first couple pages from a new translation of Juan Rulfo’s 1955 novel.
“Don’t Put No Hands on Me”
A short reading from Don DeLillo’s “Mao II” in honor of my own book-release.
Of Burning Books
A few pages from Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob.
Comfort Station
Practice readings for a performance at Comfort Station on 4/20/23 with music by Keefe Jackson, Aram Shelton, and Jeb Bishop.
Background music by The Dwarfs of East Agouza.
It’s the end of the world, my love
A reading from Alla Gorbunova’s It’s the End of the World, My Love. I found out about this book from a podcast called Polka. Apologies to any non-Russian-language-speaking listeners. Hope to be back with an episode in my adopted language soon.
A Very Old Man
A couple pages from Italo Svevo’s A Very Old Man.